Trust me, if a player refuses to talk to the press or comes out with 'no comment' to the kind of questions Naylor might have asked, it prompts far more speculation that something's afoot than if he simply gives straight answers. He's already in the shop window in any case.
There are many ways to answer a question without refusing. Anyway, we're moving away from my point which is that Bridcutt knowingly put himself in the window today.