Your boyfriend is talking utter gubbins. Unless the quote...
...was referring just to him and maybe a 'select few'. He's inventing some sort of acrimonious situation that saw RHB leave us. That didn't happen. He was tempted by the Surrey post and left. We didn't have to let him leave.
Maybe...
The way he left? Surrey offered him captaincy and we allowed him to talk to them. Hardly acrimonious.
If you were signed to a county, you had no particular affiliation to and another county offered you more money and captaincy, are you telling me you would turn the offer down?