Sam Allardyce

So in the latter seasons, when we were finishing in the top four, we were not playing like we did in the early seasons, where we had to battle it through to get points.

We had quality players to make the right amount of moves, right of runs, and start winning football matches by being a creative, attractive team, I thought.

Well, most of the time, we jumped on a plane and flew to their country, wherever they were.

And we took... I had Mike Ford with me, who's a sports psychologist, and he ultimately ended up the director of operations for us, like you mean.

So we put this sort of package together, this is Bolton Wanderers, because they didn't know...

They didn't know where it was.

The biggest attraction was the Premier League.

But after that, you know, where and who are Bolton Wanderers?

So we did a bit on the history and stuff like that, the stadium, which is fabulous.

And it's an iconic stadium, even though it only holds 28,000.

It's an absolutely brilliant stadium.

So that was where we went and sold it.

So we sort of sold that.

And I suppose in many ways I had to sell myself to them.

And of course, being the Premier League, that's a big attraction as well.

The manager, yeah.

Well, we talked about that when we got rid of all the agents and they could talk about the contract and the money.

We would talk one-on-one about, you know, at the end of the day, we're going to get an impression of whether you like me or I like you, and if we've got that good impression and we think we can work together, then...

you know, let's go forward and let's sign the contract, like you mean.

So, like I said, and Uri was a big part in speaking to other players.