Do you remember his big interview when he took over? He was full of his love for the club and i think at the time we all believed it.Sluffy wrote:Norpig wrote:I reckon he got carried along with the hype and the thought of being our saviour, he had very little business acumen or history before all this didn't he?Sluffy wrote:Norpig wrote:it's more likely Deano has been played by whoever he jumped into bed with, as Rammy says, he is probably a bit thick.
I simply don't believe he 'loved' Bolton so much that he jumped through all those hoops (and set up a new business specifically remember - Sport Shield Bolton Wanderers - or whatever is its exact title) simply just to be the owner of a club he just run up a massive £5 million debt on it he couldn't possibly pay back himself.
He might not be Einstein but he must have had a good idea of what he was getting himself into, in my opinion.
He probably thought he would get the chairman job and be the face of the club and let his dodgy mates actually run the club
I think you give him too much credit for wanting the club - I don't believe the hype at all that he 'loved' the club that much.
In fact he played more games and scored more goals for Wimbledon than he did us and he played more or less 75% of his career at clubs other than Bolton.
Christ he wasn't really that much loved here following his Wembley miss!
You're a nice bloke Norpig and you clearly want to see the good in him but I could never understand why he wanted to buy the club so badly (don't forget we were losing a £1 million per month at the time and scheduled to do so for the following 18 months or so as well!).
Something clearly wasn't right to my mind.
And nobody is that dumb.
I did think well of him at that stage but as time has gone on he has shown himself to be inept and maybe a bit underhand
I'm not that naive to believe either him or KA did it for altruistic reasons, they did it because they thought they could steady the ship and then sell on, which at the time is all we could have hoped for anyway as no one else was throwing money at Uncle Eddie