It's Monday and it looks like Burnley 0 Bolton 2 !

Linked now to Manchester City's Vladimir Weiss as Chris Eagles replacement but as yet can see no firm speculation in the media just Twitter gossip. Same goes for rumour that Burnley have made a £500k bid for Charlton's Scott Wagstaff

If we get Weiss he is a better all round player than eagles he can tackle & plays with more concistency would be a very good addition. we need Leon Cort now to go and play where he is going to get regular footbal 1st or 2nd div and with 4 plus more signings we have a much stronger squad than the start of last year

Que sera, I reckon. I'm pretty sure that Eddie would have understood the financial circumstances on appointment here and his language has always been positive, constructive and sure of himself. I'm thinking that although it's a late completion to the squad (and was it not only the week before last that Eddie was hinting that it would all be late). I think we might all be pleasantly surprised at how well this season pans out. Good to see that 58% of the fans still think the board are doing OK!

Totally agree with Pato. He has a point to prove and is a persistent irritant to defences as well as having the sniffer instinct around goal.

Weiss, Holden and Wilshere were, of course, the players we were told Coyle wanted to bring to the Turf at the time I and most posters that I can recall on VB wanted some defenders and tacklers to put a stop to all those multi-goal away defeats, the 5-3 horror at West Ham being the most recent I had witnessed. (When incidentally Eagles played brilliantly in a thrilling but pointless comeback.) My thoughts at the time were that Coyle was just feeding his habit, and these were all just the next Guerreros. And maybe he was? But maybe they were the right players to graft onto Bolton's dull but strong spine? And maybe that's why he was scouting them, allegedly for Burnley, but in reality for his next instantly exciting but never yet long-lived motivational experiment? Or maybe they'd have been the spark for a heroic triumph over the fall towards relegation that had already begun for us, with no win for weeks, and a manager beginning to look short of ideas for what to do about it. I don't need to tell anyone where Jack Wilshere has gone on to. Weiss was on our screens at the World Cup. Holden amazed me, after breaking his leg early in his Bolton career, by becoming one of the, if not the, PL's leading tacklers last year. But if Coyle had come to me asking for my money to buy these players given the obvious shortcomings of his Claret team at the time, I'd have said to him that they were not what we needed, and kept my hands in my pockets. But Weiss on today's Turf? I think we're all a bit scared about publicly admitting to harbouring hopes just now. So, for once I'll shut up.