STEVE KEAN sensationally linked to WHITES

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Kean wants the job according to Nixon.

well thats good that we're attracting big names i guess.

It's also good to hear Gartside is after a "new Coyle" LOL.

Steve Kean has put his name in for the Bolton job - just over a week since he quit at local rivals Blackburn.

Kean wants to get back into the game quickly and has contacted Trotters supremo Phil Gartside to ask to be put on their short-list of contenders to succeed the sacked Owen Coyle.

Gartside is known to be an admirer of Kean, over the way he handled the stick at Rovers during their failed survival fight last season, but the Scot is unlikely to get the gig.

The Bolton chief plans to meet three or four candidates over the next few days before deciding who to go for - with his preference for a young boss and ideally ‘a new Owen Coyle.’

Bolton have been offered out-of-work duo Mick McCarthy and Alex McLeish, but Gartside wants someone with a more fresher CV.

The trouble with that is that most of the names on his provisional hit-list including Molde coach and Manchester United hero Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Portsmouth's Michael Appleton and Dougie Freedman of Crystal Palace - are in work and may be beyond reach.

Appleton???? Someone will have to tell me why we like him, achieved absolutely nothing, though i suspect he's working for free right now so maybe thats a bonus!

Oh god no! Please no!





Just....no

That's sensationalism. He has 'asked to be shortlisted' which suggests he thought he would have been considered in the first place.

Nooooooo

Not a snowball in hells chance, its gonna be OGS, yhif.

Confident that not even Gartside could be so thick.

Hip Priest wrote:Confident that not even Gartside could be so thick.

Your confident of this??? Really?

On Appleton- baggies fans rated him very highly when he was there and saw him as Hodgson's replacement before he took the Pompey job. I'd be willing to give him a chance, certainly prefer him to McCarthy Kean McLeish Billy Davies etc etc

OGS...

hes the only potential manager I feel would have a bit of WOW factor, yes hes a risk, but i suppose anyone is for us, we cant afford a proven premier league manager so have to take these risks.

plus the loan market would open up for us a bit with the united connection...

At least on the good news front its now being reported that Mick the Mack is no longer in the running!

Please don't tell me that Gartside still gets to choose the next manager.
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Surely this talk about Steve Kean is total and utter horseshite ?

I would laugh until eternity if Steve Kean got the Bolton job.

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You mean that guy who's name you were unable to spell and you also managed to get your beloved blackburn's previous result wrong.

Bolton Hater wrote:I would laugh until eternity if Steve Kean got the Bolton job.

Anything to stop you crying about your pathetic little life, right?

Wouldn't it be hilarious if we did get Steve Kean and we got automatic promotion and Blackburn got relegated with Lawro in charge!!!

I think Steve Kean is a possible, but it would worry me if he wanted the job for the wrong reasons. Plus he'd have to take a huge paycut.

Not very inspiring IMO.

... and no free chicken.

I doubt Gartside would consider it even if he was guaranteed not to get murdered because of it.

Anyone willing to consider Mick, is willing to consider absolutely anything.