smuggler

You seem to know your stuff, azrael. Nugent couldn`t hit a cow`s arse. Ask any Pompey fan.

Can`t see why so many of you are so focused on the negatives here, must be some generaly depressed mood in Bolton or something? Truth is you got yourself a good player. He had a poor last season so obviously he is a bit of a gamble, but here we are talking about a player who has experience of playing at a World Cup, European Championship and Champions League. Far from being revered nowehere he was a fan favorite at Bremen. He was one half of the famous Klasnic-Klose attack that terrorised the Bungesliga defenders at the time when Werder where always among the title contenders. Obviously Klose was the better player of the two, but not by much, Klasnic (who is younger) was fast on his heels. The fans had him nicknamed Killer for his cool before the goal. Then one year he started to play worse and worse and nobody knew what it was about until his kidney failed. Then it became clear it was no wonder he had been playing poorly as he had been playing with a dysfunctional kidney. So it took him another year to really come back after the transplant but once he started playing he got back relatively quickly scoring a couple of goals in the second half of the 2007/08 season in Germany and generaly looking good. Then also scored two important goals for Croatia at the Euros. He could have stayed at Werder who offered him a contract extension, but moved on instead as there had been some sort of bad feeling left with the staff at the club who he belived should have discovered his condition earlier, plus he belived the coach had been overly critical of him when he had been playing with the condition. Something like that at least, I`m not 100% certain what exactly it was about. His season in France was fairly poor all things considered, and I don`t know what was that about. Maybe it was the pressure as he had been expected to be a starr and carry the team, but it didn`t work out like that. So yes between the kidney, the poor last season, the fact he has no Prem experience and so forth there are alot of uncertainities. But if there weren`t he would be a 15 million player and possibly out of range, not a freebie and willing to come to Bolton. I`m telling you Klasnic on form is a class player. (Not world class, but easily international class.) And there were indications that he can be that player again. PS, Prem is a tricky league to make the adaptation to, but the league which the most resembles it by physiciality is the German one and he shone in that one.