Fat head sam cool on diouf
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:11 pmIs he playing mind games to try and get the price down from 5 million?
Otherwise rafa will have to put him in the shop window, he can never put the red jersey on again. hes a time bomb waiting to go off.
BIG SAM: DIOUF DEAL IN DANGER
SKY Sports 08 April 2005
Sam Allardyce claims El Hadji Diouf's hot temper could cost him a permanent move to Bolton Wanderers.
The Liverpool loanee has impressed and is a cult hero at The Reebok Stadium and the Merseysiders are known to be keen on selling the Senegal striker.
Bolton would offer the perfect move for the African attacker but Allardyce has warned that any deal is far from a formality.
"I think that's still to be resolved," he told Sky Sports News. "There's a lot of elements now that will have to be discussed, not just at my level but at board level and chairman level at a club like ours, to actually progress in that area and whether it's the right thing to do or not.
"I mean there's 99.9 percent of time that he's fantastic, it's just the 0.01 percent, the flashpoint in his make-up and in his DNA that's difficult for him to control. And it's difficult for us to say we can ever overcome that scenario and it will not happen again.
"He has a flashpoint in his temperament that explodes at any given time. Unfortunately, neither he nor us knows when that is going to happen."
Allardyce did pay tribute to the impact Diouf has made since his switch to Bolton.
"I think that we're not the same team without him," conceded the Trotters boss. "We're very good but we lose that little bit of flair, that extra edge that is needed to break the opposition down and to create chances either for yourself or someone else.
"I hope when he comes back he can strike the same sort of form as before we lost him."
Otherwise rafa will have to put him in the shop window, he can never put the red jersey on again. hes a time bomb waiting to go off.
BIG SAM: DIOUF DEAL IN DANGER
SKY Sports 08 April 2005
Sam Allardyce claims El Hadji Diouf's hot temper could cost him a permanent move to Bolton Wanderers.
The Liverpool loanee has impressed and is a cult hero at The Reebok Stadium and the Merseysiders are known to be keen on selling the Senegal striker.
Bolton would offer the perfect move for the African attacker but Allardyce has warned that any deal is far from a formality.
"I think that's still to be resolved," he told Sky Sports News. "There's a lot of elements now that will have to be discussed, not just at my level but at board level and chairman level at a club like ours, to actually progress in that area and whether it's the right thing to do or not.
"I mean there's 99.9 percent of time that he's fantastic, it's just the 0.01 percent, the flashpoint in his make-up and in his DNA that's difficult for him to control. And it's difficult for us to say we can ever overcome that scenario and it will not happen again.
"He has a flashpoint in his temperament that explodes at any given time. Unfortunately, neither he nor us knows when that is going to happen."
Allardyce did pay tribute to the impact Diouf has made since his switch to Bolton.
"I think that we're not the same team without him," conceded the Trotters boss. "We're very good but we lose that little bit of flair, that extra edge that is needed to break the opposition down and to create chances either for yourself or someone else.
"I hope when he comes back he can strike the same sort of form as before we lost him."
