Bolton dont have tonnes of money but they do pay high wages i think...

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Originally posted by raveed yea the wanderers are put in one hell of a challenge this year in the EPL but seriously do bolton actually have no money to spend or are they just penny pinchers like united were a few years back(and by that I mean spend and pay wages a lot less than they were capable of) ?

we pay a fairly decent wage, top earners on £30k a week ish, ie. okocha, diouf i think is on 25k, then other big names on similar. By not paying transfer fees, simply which we can't, we have the chance to pay a semi-decent wage, but remembering that many of the players we get have lost their way, we usually offer incentive based pay, good bonuses for wins & landmarks, and I think it's showing. We simply don't have the huge transfer fees unless we sell, and the only likely sale this summer would be Jaaskelainen if Man Utd or someone come in for him, then we'd get an equally good player for minimal fees (Jussi cost 150k) and make profits if needed. examples are

Gudjohnsen - free to us, 4.5m to chelsea
Curcic 1m to us 4m to aston villa (1998)
jensen - 1m to us, 4.5m to charlton
alan thompson - 200k to us, 4.5m to aston villa (1998 ish)

We are mainly just a sensible club, we don't spend out of our means, but we have a great spirit, and a manager who's one of the best i nthe country, maybe europe, especially given the job he's done with us in the last 6 years.

my heart wants to say Chelsea but AC Milan is the best team in the world.

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Originally posted by Kongo_kim my heart wants to say Chelsea but AC Milan is the best team in the world.

if u dont listen to your heart ur supposed to listen to your head and i dont think you are doing that ... try again

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Originally posted by Ian^ Gudjohnsen - free to us, 4.5m to chelsea Curcic 1m to us 4m to aston villa (1998) jensen - 1m to us, 4.5m to charlton alan thompson - 200k to us, 4.5m to aston villa (1998 ish) We are mainly just a sensible club, we don't spend out of our means, but we have a great spirit, and a manager who's one of the best i nthe country, maybe europe, especially given the job he's done with us in the last 6 years.

no doubt big sams a fantastic manager and thats a brilliant business policy the clubs adopting given that sam is known to be a shrewd bastard in the transfer market but its weird that despite refraining from big spending, bolton fail to register profits ... with that kind of policy and the reebok stadium being a fairly large one, youd kinda expect to see gains ... could your chairman be playing peter risdale or is it lack of euopean qualification?

When mr gartside came in, about 1999, we were in a bad bad shape, 30 million in debt etc. It's only by being very strong that he's been able to turn us around. Now we're in our best shape ever, and we did make a profit last time I think, of a couple of million. We're run as a club not a business though, which is how it should be imo

LIVERPOOLLLLLL

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My team would have to be Chelsea

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Where has the time gone??????

Do the words, Glory Hunter mean anything to you???

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Originally posted by tall paul 2 Do the words, Glory Hunter mean anything to you???

took two years, but thank the lord, I finally get to hear that term being used for a Chelsea boy .... on behalf of all Manchester United fans(current not former since they either dead or at stamford bridge) I hereby bestow this title from us to you

Thats not a good thing though, cos it shows that Chelsea are now better than you.. or have more chance of success over the next 5 years.

Dont know if uve read fergusons comments though, that chelsea arent better than utd...??? The table doesnt lie!!!!

Although well find out tonight..

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we're better than the blueshite

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