Youth focus for Allardyce
18 Aug 2006 - 08:01:05
Bolton Wanderers boss Sam Allardyce has admitted that the Trotters need to start producing their own players, after enduring a tough summer in the transfer market.
Allardyce has so far only managed to snare former Manchester United midfielder Quinton Fortune and Marseille defender Abdoulaye Meite and accepts that he needs to have better luck in the next two weeks.
He said: "We have to start developing our own players.
"We are trying to do as much as we can as quickly as we can and we have done well with the likes of Nicky Hunt, Kevin Nolan, Joey O'Brien and Ricardo Vaz Te.
"But we are still behind because we have had to focus on the first team for so long, so we must start pursuing this avenue more vigorously than we ever have before.
"I am trying to get the highest quality I can, but the type of player I have brought in before, those who have made such a big impact here, are just not around - and if they are we are looking at paying about £4million.
"That is taking me into an area where I just cannot go, because you end up competing with clubs who have both a higher standing in the game and greater financial status than we do."