Davo - Sheff Wednesday

[TANGODANCER]

We should of said goodbye last season. He's stunk the place out this year only showing glimpses of the player he used to be. I'd be glad to see him go as I'm sick of seeing him play. With a massive thanks for being a great of course. We've clung on for too long.

Dear,dear. O.D. Remarks like that must be a real motivation to any Bolton player.

[officer_dibble]

I doubt he's sat at his laptop worrying about what I think!

[thebish]

I doubt he's sat at his laptop worrying about what I think!

no - but Emma is!! beware!!

[jaffka]

I doubt he's sat at his laptop worrying about what I think!

no - but Emma is!! beware!!

really! thanks

hey Emma do you fancy a game of hide the sausage?

[BWFC_Insane]

I don't understand what she wants? A new contract through loyalty?

Really? I understand its probably a bit upsetting but she surely can't think the club should just hand him a contract cos he's been there a long time?

Surely she's been around football enough to know it doesn't work like that.

[Bruce Rioja]

Surely she's been around football enough to know it doesn't work like that.

Indeed. Let's not forget that her husband once scored the winner in a semi yet didn't make the squad for the final.

I do wonder if SKD knows how much shite she churns out on Twatter?

[Lord Kangana]

Crazy Horse is right.

Theres nowt else to be said on the matter.

[Wandering Willy]

Well hello there stranger

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I don't understand what she wants? A new contract through loyalty?

Really? I understand its probably a bit upsetting but she surely can't think the club should just hand him a contract cos he's been there a long time?

Surely she's been around football enough to know it doesn't work like that.

Coyle did it with his old chum from Burnley. Maybe Davo is good to have around the place

[CAPSLOCK]

If it was simple...

Him going now saves us 400k or so in wages - possibly a hefty 'loyalty bonus' on completion of his contract

Maybe its that that is Emmas issue - ie if you leave, we aint paying it

It won't be that simple, unless he's willing to take a drop in pay in return for a 2 year deal with somebody - he may be

400k pays a couple of decent players for a year

It's not like letting him go significantly weakens us

Get shut...sharpish

[boltonboris]

He's been past it for 3 years in my opinion, in those 3 years we've paid him over £5m in wages.

Now THAT is fvckin loyalty. His wife can fvckin do one.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

If it was simple...

Him going now saves us 400k or so in wages - possibly a hefty 'loyalty bonus' on completion of his contract

Maybe its that that is Emmas issue - ie if you leave, we aint paying it

It won't be that simple, unless he's willing to take a drop in pay in return for a 2 year deal with somebody - he may be

400k pays a couple of decent players for a year

It's not like letting him go significantly weakens us

Get shut...sharpish

...assuming Sheffield Wednesday (or whoever) pick up the full tab.

On another tack, contracts usually end on June 30 - just over three months away - so you're saying the captain's on £1.6m ("or so") per year, aka £30k per week; believable, but then you say £400k "pays a couple of decent players for a year". £200k (each) per year is £3,800 per week: has our salary scale dropped that far?

[BWFC_Insane]

He's been past it for 3 years in my opinion, in those 3 years we've paid him over £5m in wages.

Now THAT is fvckin loyalty. His wife can fvckin do one.

I would say 3 years is harsh. But I think the rest is right.

He's hardly been walking barefoot over broken glass to pull disabled kids out of burning buildings for nowt.

The way she bangs on you'd think he had.

He's been a great pro for us, will go down as a Bolton legend and rightly so. But feck me he's a highly paid professional footballer earning more in a week than many will earn in a year.

He's been rewarded handsomely for what he's done here.

To start talking about loyalty and people making you "sick" cos there might not be another contract? That's just wrong.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

If you want intelligent analysis, you're barking up the wrong Twitter tree.

[CAPSLOCK]

If it was simple...

Him going now saves us 400k or so in wages - possibly a hefty 'loyalty bonus' on completion of his contract

Maybe its that that is Emmas issue - ie if you leave, we aint paying it

It won't be that simple, unless he's willing to take a drop in pay in return for a 2 year deal with somebody - he may be

400k pays a couple of decent players for a year

It's not like letting him go significantly weakens us

Get shut...sharpish

...assuming Sheffield Wednesday (or whoever) pick up the full tab.

On another tack, contracts usually end on June 30 - just over three months away - so you're saying the captain's on £1.6m ("or so") per year, aka £30k per week; believable, but then you say £400k "pays a couple of decent players for a year". £200k (each) per year is £3,800 per week: has our salary scale dropped that far?

I believe I dealt with point 1 - Theres no way Sheff Wed will pay him what we do

Nobody will - if this 'loyalty bonus' is under discussion, then that may have an effect on the figures. All I was getting it as that keeping him on to wave him off, could be a very expensive goodbye


As for the wages for decent players at this level, yeah, I reckon 4k a week is run of the mill decent players - theres one or two at Peterborough who I'd happily take and 4k would see them walking over broken glass

I think

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Point 1: Suspected as much, but thought it needed further enunciation.

Point 2: I was taking "decent" on our scale as opposed to division-wide; there'll be a few at Barnsley on £4k or so, but I bet Eagles isn't. As a point of reference, a couple of years ago £1k pw was a fairly standard wage in Division Four - not a bad living, twice the national average wage, but short career span etc.

[Beefheart]

That Div 4 average wage is higher than I would have expected actually.

[Athers]

Is why quite a few very good players prefer to be part timers rather than chase the dream of being a League 2 / Conference pro - A few hundred quid on weekends from the club, plus their 'proper job' during the week.

[Bruce Rioja]

Is why quite a few very good players prefer to be part timers rather than chase the dream of being a League 2 / Conference pro - A few hundred quid on weekends from the club, plus their 'proper job' during the week.

There's a lad at our place that does that.

[Peter Thompson]

He's been past it for 3 years in my opinion, in those 3 years we've paid him over £5m in wages.

Now THAT is fvckin loyalty. His wife can fvckin do one.

Spot on....