In a quote for the Bournemouth Evening Echo, he states that: "This is the first time I have been asked about whether I might return to football at some point. All I can say is that I might. But whether I wish to get entangled again in the mad business of football, I'm just not sure yet. Quite apart from whether I would or would not be interested (in Cherries), at the moment I am still locked into Southampton because they said they would buy my remaining shares and, as yet, they haven't".