It's pre-season training at a big Premier League club a year ago. The sun is shining, players are laughing as they relive antics from the beach. Coaching staff are putting the final touches to their preparations.
Optimism fills the air - with one exception. Within the ranks of suntanned and toned players is what, within football, is known as a ‘transfer terrorist’.
The transfer terrorist - in this case a defender - is desperate to leave. He is raging at a perceived injustice. He believes the powers-that-be in the boardroom had repeatedly broken promises.
Across multiple windows he has made it clear he wants to go to a club closer to his home but a transfer had failed to materialise, despite what he had felt was a fair offer.