Glenn: Gazza Story Exaggerated

Glenn Roeder insists that Paul Gascoigne's impending training spell with West Ham will be just that - and nothing more.

Paul will, at some stage this summer, spend a few days at Chadwell Heath but Glenn explains:

"People always put two and two together as usual and come up with five; they jump the gun and start guessing - and when you guess or presume things you often get it wrong.

"I am in contact again with Paul; he is back again living with his wife and working hard every day on the physical side of getting himself fit, and is out running every day.

"All that he said to me is that he has got an opportunity to go to Dubai but I don't know whether that is in the next week, the next month, or the next three months.

"But all he asked for is the week before he goes to Dubai was 'can I come in and just touch up on my ball skills?'

"Because we go back such a long way that is not a problem for me to facilitate; he will come in and do some training with us.

"I found the fuss and the publicity that followed the thought of him coming go train with us was, again, madness.

"But then I should know to have learnt by now to expect madness.

"The main purpose of it is just to help him out so that when he arrives in Dubai he will have had a week of football training and will be ready to go straight back to playing football for whoever his new football club in Dubai is."