Pick one from the above and you might find the answer to the Kyle Laffety situation which erupted this week.

If you believe the national press, at least four clubs are after the talented Irish international.

And if you believe the national press, any one of them could give double the current Turf Moor transfer record to get their hands on the 20-year-old.

But is that a bidding war created by the player's undoubted talent. Or is it being skilfully manipulated by his agent?

Whatever else has, however, been going on, the situation took on whole new dimensions on Wednesday.

A Belfast newspaper suggested that Lafferty needed freeing from what was described as his Turf Moor hell.

Could it be true? Of course not.

The Belfast Telegraph suggested that Lafferty no longer felt wanted by the club.

Could it be true? Of course not.

The paper also suggested that the current manager was the root of the problems.

Is Owen Coyle to blame? Of course not.

So was there some naivety on Lafferty's part in speaking to the journalist in question in the first place? Probably.

It all led to a lot of people getting very hot under the collar about the situation.

Lafferty found himself lambasted from all quarters and had this been a scene from a Western he would have been run out of town. Then people got even hotter under the collar when it became clear that he had been misquoted by the Belfast Telegraph.

What had he really said?

In a nutshell he was not fed up with the club or the management, but felt that there were certain sections of the fan-base that he could never win over and that he would have to move on!

Nett result? As I wrote this, Lafferty was still very much a Burnley player and looked likely to remain so. But the big-club vultures are definitely circling and appear to have their chequebooks at the ready.

Lafferty's Turf Moor days appear to be numbered which is a shame, but an inevitable one. That the whole thing has been played out in the press and across the Internet in such a tawdry fashion is proof enough of the theory many managers have about keeping tight reins on their players.

Not tight enough, it would appear, in this case!