Depends how you define 'good' but they have developed talent for profit quite well, and added value to a few loan signings also.
Good post. There's ominous parallels between what daft lad is doing deliberately and what Bolton were forced to do. Sell anything of value and recruit on the cheap i.e. young inexperienced or older perhaps injury prone players that are not up to Championship standards and results / position in table reflect that. The club is being run as a League 1 outfit, on League 1 wages, with League 1 performances.
Which is unfortunately why we’ll lose them for free at the end of their contract, and replace them with dobbins that will accept League One wages. No one tells those idiots how to run their business, which is why it’s heading at full speed down the tubes.
We pay League 1 wages, according to everyone who has insider knowledge of our wages department yet we are still paying £10k a week for someone to play for Bristol City ??? You can't have it both ways.
There's a difference between historic signings, that we're about to get out of (Henriksen, Kingsley, Stewart etc) and the signings we've made recently. Even Scott, who's the only player we've signed for a decent fee recently, came from a club where the average wage is £1,135 a week.
Abd so what’s do you think our wage bill is? I imageine it’s 15-20 million About average for the championship
I'd be genuinely interested to know what wages players like Eaves , Honeyman , Wilks , Magennis etc. are on.
So your saying he left a safe job at Donny to take less money and a 12 month contract with us ? Why would anyone do that ?
He left for a stab at the championship and furthering his career as I'm sure many managers with ambition would.
Eddie Davies ploughed millions (c£179m) into Bolton, and when he switched off his funds, followed by his trust doing almost likewise, the club was unsustainable and basically collapsed. Daft lad along with his daft dad have a created a club that now has c£50m worth of debt, some £30m more than when they acquired the club, and claim we are sustainable, unfortunately that won't be the case should we be relegated. I disagree about League 1 performances, we've not been that good over the last couple of months, more like National Conference. Unless we get some of the better players from from injuries, I fear the worst with Terrys management style and philosophy.