Kansas City, Mo. ? As far as 10-year-old Daniel Gibson is concerned, Trent Green can stay in Kansas City, and the Miami Dolphins can go steal somebody else’s quarterback.

“We love you, Trent,” yelled the youngster from Independence, Mo., proudly clad in a red Chiefs jersey. “Please don’t leave.”

Green figures the Chiefs no longer want him, that they’ve decided young Brodie Croyle is their quarterback of the future. So he’s impatiently waiting for Kansas City to finalize a deal that will let him finish his career in Miami.

But any doubts as to how the fans feel about one of the most popular Chiefs in team history were erased emphatically as he worked his way along the railing signing autographs Saturday at the end of a 90-minute workout in Arrowhead Stadium.

About 15,000 fans showed up for the free show, and it seemed as though all of them were jostling to get to Green.

The autograph session was supposed to last only 15 minutes so players could go right into meetings. But long after the other athletes had all finished signing their names and disappeared into the tunnel, Green lingered.

The Chiefs didn’t seem to mind. And fans ate it up.

“Thanks for everything, Trent,” yelled one man.

“Trent, you’re a class act,” yelled another.

Many leaned so far over the rail they almost seemed in danger of toppling over and falling onto the turf. Green, smiling and accommodating as always, walked along the field and reached up to sign programs, books, jerseys, footballs and everything else that was thrust into his hands.

“This is surreal,” Green said, grinning.

Before long, reporters and cameramen waiting to grab a few minutes with the presumably Miami-bound quarterback swarmed around him and began walking along in step.

“Trent, how did it feel knowing this would probably be your last time in Arrowhead Stadium as a Chief?” one reporter asked.

“It ain’t the last time!” yelled a fan at the railing. “It ain’t! No way, Trent!”

Green smiled at the man, signed his name and began signing the next object somebody stuck in his face.

Does all this adulation make it harder to leave?

“It just reconfirms what I’ve done the last six years, and the appreciation on and off the field, things with the community and our family’s involvement,” Green said. “It just reconfirms my family’s belief about this city.”

Does this make him wish things had worked out differently, that he could stay with the Chiefs?

“Even before this, I was wishing it had worked out differently. They (the Chiefs) initiated this in February. It’s just dragging on. Hopefully, there’ll be some closure soon.”

Fans kept pressing things into his hand, shouting their gratitude for leading one of the NFL’s most prolific offenses for five exciting seasons.

Green kept signing his name and talking with reporters as the entire group slowly, somewhat awkwardly, worked its way along the railing.

Any chance of him staying?

“I don’t see that happening. I anticipate a deal being done. But crazier things happen. You never know.”

Green wasn’t complaining about the lovefest from fans, though.

“It’s great. I’ve got a lot of support around the city. We love Kansas City. This is where we plan to make our home when my career is over.”

But sad to say for young Daniel Gibson and the other fans along the railing, that career almost surely will end in Miami.