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http://www.itv.com/news/2016-03-10/c...lton-takeover/

Dean Holdsworth's Sport Shield consortium have completed their takeover of Bolton Wanderers for an initial £7.5m.

Holdsworth will become the Trotters' new chief executive and take on the running of the club from former owner Eddie Davies. Ken Anderson will become the club's new chairman.

Davies is also understood to have written off £170m owed to him by the football club.

Sky Sports News

Pleased about this, Bolton are a historical club yet are fighting relegation and were struggling financially so it's nice to see a possible financial injection and new beginning.

[Mystic Mock]

When will Birmingham get this sort of help?!

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I suspect the new owners will sack Neil Lennon. It's a shame as results have not been entirely his own fault. The lack of funds and players not getting paid for weeks will have had an impact.

Mystic Mock, Birmingham City should have not have parted company with Gold/Sullivan/ Brady. They have been brilliant at West Ham. West Ham along with Spurs could be the new Kings of London rather than Arsenal and Chelsea. The football landscape is changing.

With Leicester's Midland (East) dominance , it could be hard for Birmingham to come up, they 'stole' that young starlet Demari Gray who will be a star next season and they will pick off any talent from West Midlands.

[Mystic Mock]

Gold/Sulivan/Brady was our best era, but even they didn't spend as much money on us as they have done at West Ham.

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I remember how much flack Birmingham fans gave Sullivan et al. They spent more on West Ham as the stakes are bigger now. Sky money, large Olympic stadium, no running costs for new stadium, West Ham are much bigger brand than Birmingham and were biding their time to make a surge as a top London football brand. They will be on par with Arsenal and the Chesleas in terms of capacity, as will Spurs , hence they can invest heavily in players and get talent like Payet.

The big issue Birmingham have is AV relegation and that West Bromwich (aka football vomit) will be the biggest West Midlands football brand (Leicester Midlands in general, don't be fooled by Leicester's whole, "who, little old me ? " innocent schtick. They are very ambitious and their Thai owners have huge plans to turn them into a mega club. There is talk o buying an MLS club and a Chinese club and turning the whole thing into a franchise ala Man City's "City " franchise. They are just doing ambition slyly. The media is too busy writing about LVG, Wenger and Mourinho to pay to much attention to LCFC. West Bromwich and LCFC Academies will have access to the best talented young Midland players who come through and those who are at Birmingham will be picked off by them or Leicester.

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Bolton will be all-but relegated in midweek if they lose at Brentford, Fulham win and Rotherham beat Bristol City at Ashton Gate.

Those results would see the Trotters at least 17 points away from safety with six games to play and a major goal difference deficit.

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Oh well relegation should be a re-birth, new manager with a strong vision, ambition, strategy (Lennon had none of this in my opinion) and go with the best youth academy.