He did. ‘It’s mainly somewhere to give them somewhere to train and get fit.... Charlie phoned me a few days ago and asked if he could come in and train,” Mowbray said. “He knows a few of the lads and I said ‘no problem’. “One of our young players Brad Lyons picked up a groin injury yesterday. “Brad would have played and we needed to fill in with the bodies because I was going to play two lots of 45 minutes. “I asked Charlie if he wanted to fill in and he said ‘yeah fine’ because that’s the sort of kid he is.’

This wasn’t. He rang up himself and asked to train . He got a game at Barrow due to an injury. Fairly common in the game, so not a trial. As I said not a bad life.

So JW and/or the Trust were funnelling money out?

Great life being a footballer though, ain’t it. Free agent, but ring up a club asking if you can train, rock up and take part in sessions, use the facilities, get physio and massages. eat the food, get yourself fit and then get a contract somewhere else.

Three stars ay? They only had 2 league titles (fewer than us) when the Arabs turned up.

He’s obviously not remotely interested in playing in England again, two and a half weeks to go and not bothered with a pre-season. 27 years old, should be reaching his peak. A symbol of the modern game.

Jim White loves having him on talksport. ’EXCLUSIVE interview with the would be owner of Bolton’ They obviously all know he’s got issues and will never own them, but just let him make a fool of himself for an hour, good radio ay!

Who’s they? Venky’s or Waggott and his team?

That was just city going back to an updated version of their proper badge.

I don’t think he’s mentally well. The media are taking advantage, to me.

Named no names, apart from fellow academy grad Nyambe.

Good chance he did want to go after Mowbray hung him out to dry on more than one occasion post Christmas. Something he never did to experienced defenders that were also dropping regular clangers.

That’s zero friendlies... https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/17787015.game-oldham-athletic-cancel-bolton-wanderers-friendly/

Has to be worth a look if no new LB is coming in. No way Bell can be first choice in a team with any aspirations, just a poor player at this level and no signs of improvement from what I’ve seen.

I’m going to say... yes.

Not without serious reinforcements to that defensive unit. I foresee more thrashings away from home.

I’m talking about last season. Of course he got stick he was making errors. Many posters wanted him to have competition, a better GK coach, not to just flog him.

Not remotely true that ‘well over half the board’ wanted him shipped out. He’s gone and that’s that, but don’t re-write history.

Extremely daft. Who doesn’t appreciate it? This board is always clamouring for academy lads to be played. From Travis to Buckley to Butterworth and on it goes.

He was

‘Rule of 3’ Nothing to see here.

I wasn’t massively upset by it, but then I wasn’t expecting a young loanee as a replacement.

Being a bit disingenuous there, yes he was making mistakes, but most knew he was full of potential. Talk was about competition and replacing the GK coach more than selling Raya.

To be fair, if we can’t take on face value TM’s comments that he needed to be sold so we could bring in players, we can’t his comments that he wanted to leave either.

What a silly comment. Ive never come across a Rovers fan that doesn’t LOVE seeing young lads coming through the academy.