We deserve bankruptcy

Fucking barmy.

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I cringed when I read this part: -

Sunderland had been willing to offer Davies
an 18-month deal, but Bolton are happy to offer a deal of similar length
to their veteran striker.

I can only imagine we want to keep him on as a coach once he retires so we are offering him this deal to keep him happy.

"And we should give him a new contract as well he has served us well and lives and breathes Bolton a future manager for the club in my mind and training in this field should also be forthcoming. SKD = BWFC"

What planet are some folk living on? Do they seriously think we're in a position to be handing out sentimental contracts?

This is more evidence of Coyle's faulty judgement. Davies's form is so bad that even OC drops him but instead of selling him and using the money to finance another purchase we offer him an 18 month contract?!! WTF for?

Coyle out!

Spot on, xmiles.

Too often with Owen Coyle, I find myself asking the question, "Why? Just why?"

I heard it was likely to be on a reduced salary which would make some sense. If it's true he was on £40k a week that's >£2 million a year - cut his salary to £20k a week he'll have to get by on a mill a year so in a twisted kind of way we'd have saved £1million (the bulk of the transfer fee) kept the player and at the same time not allowed a competitor to have an asset.

Genius?

Perhaps.

wanderlust wrote:I heard it was likely to be on a reduced salary which would make some sense. If it's true he was on £40k a week that's >£2 million a year - cut his salary to £20k a week he'll have to get by on a mill a year so in a twisted kind of way we'd have saved £1million (the bulk of the transfer fee) kept the player and at the same time not allowed a competitor to have an asset.

Genius?

Perhaps.

If the figures you mention are accurate then the net gain of selling him was £2m (£1m sale fee + £1m reaminder of contract). I see it more as allowing a competitor to have a liability than an asset personally.

Sunderland's offer was blind stupid (it's Martin O'Neill afterall), all things considered and we're not likely to see anything like it again.

I'm with doffcocker. I don't see Sunderland as a rival this season as they will finish above us anyway and next season Davies will be even less use than he is now. We should have taken the money when we had the chance.

Davies never ever struck me as Captain material so HTF can he be seen as management material ?

Behind every good man is a good woman RT!