Fair point, but if we continue our poor form away from home we ain???t going to get anywhere near a top 6 finish. If Anelka stops performing we won???t be able to sell him for half of what we paid.

 

and if he does perform, we'll be able to sell him for double...

and if he does perform, we'll be able to sell him for double...

 

I understand the original post about this as it isn't the best thing to hear off a new signing, but he scored 15 and 17 times respectively in 2 seasons at city who at the time were a mid table team at best we have been consistantly better than that now for a few seasons and nearly every bolton fan you'll speak to says we need a goalscorer well now we have one and if he does score 15-20 we probably won't be in the champs league but id be surprised if we were not in the uefa again so if anelka gets the goals and gets us into the uefa cup again and leaves for a large some which it will be if he scores that amount I for one will be saying a big thankyou to anelka for coming to our club.

...and breathe

If we had signed him a week earlier, he'd be the current top goalscorer in the Prem.

He'd have buried the 2 soft chances Stelios missed at Charlton and he'd have scored the penalty missed by Diouf, plus he would have scored others too.

In this era, there's very few top level players who play for non-glamorous sides like Bolton for pride. Especially foreigners who've played for the top English sides and Real Madrid. I mean, what do you expect, for him to declare that it was always his dream to play in the same side as Nicky Hunt. That he longed to swap the trendy Paris bars and clubs for a hamshank off some trout in Chuffers.

 

Give him time, Campo was probably of the same mind but he loves the club now. Bolton that is, not Chuffers (he's a Taskers man).

 

Signing Anelka works both ways for the club and player. In my opinion, the 8m price tag is a good investment for a 27 year-old world class player with proven track record in the Premiership. If he pulls a moody after a year, we'll still get 6m back. Averaging the 8m over 4 years, the yearly 2m loss (worst case) is a calculated gamble admittedly but if we improve a place or two, the money will have been more than recouped ie. each place in the League is 0.5m (more for a UEFA spot) plus extra for merchandising and that we should forecast no more than a mid-table slot at the beginning of the season rather than assume our starting point is 8th.

 

If you want passion and the away-day craic like the fun in the Eighties, then hope we go back down to the 3rd Div. If you'd rather watch a better class of football chanting we are the one and only wanderers, then rejoice in the fact that Nicolas Anelka is playing for Bolton Wanderers. Unfortunately, you can't have both

Hark at you Mr Risk Assesor.

 

 

When you back......Gimp.

 

PS

Nowt wrong with Chuffers.

Hark at you Mr Risk Assesor.

When you back......Gimp.

 

PS

Nowt wrong with Chuffers.

 

You've been PM'd.

 

Chuffers, fck me, you could never move in there - your feet just stuck to the "carpet".

Remember someone from the KK crew telling me he went in there still wearing his golf shoes. If Bobbers wants to hear the sound of broken glass, that's the place.

No, The story is he tried to get in with Trainers on, no go, but he had his golf shoes in the car, so changed into them and they let him in.