Transfer rumours !

Let's hope they have a bidding war which ends up in one of them paying over £1,000,000 for him.   

Keegan wrote:Huddersfield & Sheffield Wednesday are battling it out to sign Bolton midfielder Keith Andrews. Who will the winner be? Bolton Wanderers!

What? We still have Andrews?

Bolton have set a £2million valuation on Adam Bogdan.

Sounds as though if FSV Mainz meet the valuation then he will be off.

karlypants wrote:Bolton have set a £2million valuation on Adam Bogdan.

Sounds as though if FSV Mainz meet the valuation then he will be off.

Looks like we need a new keeper then.

In the current climate, £2m for Bogdan is a great price for us.

Dougie could buy five players with that!

We need two or three to really compete, but quality over quantity is the order of the day so I don't reckon it will be enough if Adam goes to 05. Plus with quality you get higher wages which is not in the plan - unfortunately.

Breadman wrote:In the current climate, £2m for Bogdan is a great price for us.

Dougie could buy five players with that!  

Naive fool.

Do you think Gartside would allow one penny of any money to be used? will he fuck.

£2 million = Sum total of FUCK ALL added to the squad.

Remember, Freedman was LIED to regarding the sale of Ngog...

You're working up a good head of steam on the Gartside Out front RR. I'm not convinced he does a competent job either, but I can only make that judgement on the limited amount of info that leaks out and I can't be sure it's reliable. There are a lot of rumours but personally, I can't decide on that basis alone.
However if Dougie does OK next season despite having to scrat around for players I'll know for sure by the reaction to that performance. If a good performance is used to justify underfunding the team ("You did fine without money so you don't really need it") I'll be disappointed.

Wanderlust - you are correct. I agree with your analysis.

The issue I have with gartside is exactly this - I feel we are destined to another crap season due to a lack of investment (especially up-front) If we have a crap season, it will ultimately be DF fault and gartside will be seen to wield the axe to save face - when he was the root cause of the issue in the first place due to allowing players to leave and refusing to invest in the squad.Not saying DF is a really good manger, he may turn out to be worse than coyle, then again he may be the next BSA. If he has next to no resources and the ones he does have are snatched away - how can we expect him to do a good job? Its like expecting a mechanic to rebuild a V6 mustang engine with no tools and a budget of £5 for tools and parts - a loose-loose situation.

If we have a good season - he will still get fuck all to spend as the "you did alright last season" philosophy will come in.

We need to return to the premier league, I understand we have no money, but to get the money we do need, we need the prem money, to do this - we need a squad capable of getting us there and competing with other teams at the top of the championship. This short-sightedness of gartsides is what's ruining the club - I only see us getting worse under gartside, never better. He appears to be a leech who cares not for the club or his employees but about his own bank balance. Problem is - we are stuck with him, he is a director with a financial interest in a lot of business entities involved with the club - including the new development (you can bet some of his other companies are getting paid to carry out work for the clubs new development too, a quick check on him shows he is involved with several civil engineering companies and sports representation companies too) He is no stranger to controversy either, having been arrested or implicated in fraudulent activities more than once.

I find the fact he bought himself on to the board for virtually nothing when we were in the 4th div, along with his fellow leeches the Warburton brothers and takes hundreds of thousands a year in dividend payments - for what? BWFC are in shit creak - I'm sure directors only get bonus's if the company they are responsible for is doing well... same with Dividends - only if the company makes a profit... and we are not (not as a football club anyway - this is why we trade under various different names/companies)

I thnik there is more to gartside than meets the eye. Until we get rid of him we are never going to get anywhere.

He is bad news.

Bolton are apparrently showing interest in £600,000 pacy forward, Manuel Onwu Villafrance. 

The forward has scored just one goal in three seasons so he should fit right in at the Macron...

One goal in three seasons? I think we can call this guy shit before he's kicked a ball for us.

One goal in 3 seasons....how many games has he actually played in that time?

The stats on wikipedia are not detailed enough unfortunately.

Edit: these are wikipedia's stats...

Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2006–2007	[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
2007–2012	[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]	106	(23)
2007–2008	→ [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (loan)	36	(19)
2008	→ [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (loan)	4	(1)
2012–	[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]	22	(1)

karlypants wrote:Bolton are apparrently showing interest in £600,000 pacy forward, Manuel Onwu Villafrance. 

The forward has scored just one goal in three seasons so he should fit right in at the Macron...

How old is he?

26

Total lack of ambition. No investment by the club so no investment from me. Fuck your season ticket fat boy!

1 goal in three seasons?

He can't be a striker.

scottjames30 wrote:1 goal in three seasons?

He can't be a striker.

In Dougie's eyes he qualifies as one

Who was the guy who played for one of the WC Q-finalists (Costa Rica or Colombia?) who hadn't played for 3 seasons, but was selected and did really well?
Not suggesting this guy is the same kind of story but it does tend to suggest that Juke is going elsewhere. Or does it? This guy is referred to as pacy which is a different kind of player from Juke so maybe it's back up for Beckford?

Brighton are favourites to get Villafranca although other Championship sides including us, Bournemouth and Sheff W are after him. 
Basically he's an Osasuna reserve who scored a load for the second team, got promoted to the first team into a struggling Osasuna side and didn't hack it without the service. Osasuna were relegated so he asked for a move.
Looks like paper talk so I'd save the vitriol for now.