After possibly having potential ITK information twice in the last month (still dont know if its true!) i got told something today regarding Foster from a different person. (30 plus years going the Albion, always last to know anything, now in a month people start telling me stuff!)
A bloke i train with has quite a high powered job and a couple of weeks ago he was attending a function which Foster was one of the star guests, apparently the day before Foster pulled out for personal reasons which is unlike him as he has been attending this same event for years.
This was about a week or 10 days before preseason began so before any of the stuff about Foster kicked off and it was the first time i had seen this bloke for a few weeks for him to say anything.
Anyways, people were surprised Foster wasnt there and somebody who is supposedly close to him said he has major family problems at the moment (dont know what they are or again if its even true) but Foster had made it clear he wasnt going to Portugal and was happy to take the hit in a fine, obviously family is more important than anything so it is a delicate subject.
If that is the case you would hope the club have been helpful and maybe the stuff about him not turning up, being fined, etc has been exaggerated. Of course it could be he just isnt happy about comings and goings and wants more money.
Time will tell i suppose and like i say the above could all be nonsense (not the bit about Foster not attending the event, thats true!) but i thought at the time, its weird two players adopting that stance of not travelling, etc but again on the flipside maybe they had a pact that to make their point two is better than one.