Gary Madine's determination to join Cardiff City revealed

Gary Madine's determination to join Cardiff City revealed


Bolton News

Friday 2nd Jan 2018

Gary Madine handed in a transfer request a week before his transfer deadline day move from Bolton Wanderers to Cardiff City, despite being offered fresh terms that would have seen his salary double had he remained with Phil Parkinson's side.

The striker's move from the Macron Stadium to the Welsh capital was confirmed just two hours before Wednesday's 11pm deadline, with the 27-year-old signing a three-and-a-half year deal with the Bluebirds.

But it has been revealed that Madine informed the Trotters' hierarchy a full seven days prior to his switch to South Wales that he wanted to leave the club, despite being offered a one-year contract extension that would have effectively seen the forward double what he was earning on his previous deal.


Bolton chairman Ken Anderson admitted the Trotters did everything in their power to keep hold of the Madine - the subject of five separate bids from Cardiff during the course of the winter window - in January.

Anderson confirmed that Madine turned down a bumper new contract at the Macron and handed in a transfer request to increase his chances of signing an even more lucrative deal with the Bluebirds.

"A great deal has been written and said elsewhere about the transfer of Gary Madine, and l can say that, like many of you, l was very disappointed to lose him," said Anderson .

"However, despite all that has been written and said elsewhere, even by some of the people close and actively involved in the transfer, it became obvious to me towards the end of last week that Gary and his advisors had decided on a move away despite having made what l considered to be a very good, new contract offer to Gary, whereby his salary and add-ons effectively doubled his current salary and extended the length of the contract by a further year to 2020.


"However, for whatever their reasons, Gary and his advisors declined to accept our proposals.

"Indeed, discussions came to a stage whereby Gary submitted a written transfer request on January 24, which was after the initial offers from Cardiff had been received and swiftly declined, and despite all the efforts made by the manager and myself to keep Gary, it was not to be.

"I reluctantly agreed on Tuesday to meet with the Cardiff chairman personally to try and reach an agreement that would be financially beneficial and acceptable to the club.

"As l said in my notes on January 17, and have said in the past, if and when an exceptional offer was made for any of our players, l would also have to consider the club’s longer term financial situation and base my final decision on now and the future, which as we all now know, culminated in Gary moving to Cardiff on a three-year deal and on substantially better terms than we could have offered him if l was to continue the prudent and commercially financial path that we are now having to take."


"Furthermore, l can say that the determining factor in agreeing to the transfer, albeit that it was only reluctantly and finally accepted on Wednesday morning, was the fact a fee was to be paid immediately with further substantial add-ons in the future dependent on achievements, together with a substantial share of any future transfer proceeds."



The Bolton chairman - who also says the Trotters will get a chunk of any sell-on fee if the Bluebirds cash in on Madine in the future - added: "I do not blame or disagree with Gary’s decision and fully understand that he has to consider his own and his family’s future as the life and career of a professional footballer is a short one and is sometimes made even shorter by injury, as has clearly been seen with Mark Davies.

"Both clubs agreed not to disclose the transfer details, but surprisingly - and l don’t know how - the level of the fee and the payment terms that have been referred to elsewhere and the figures being bandied around are not that far from reality.

"Indeed, the transaction is one of the largest in this Sky Bet Championship window and is up there with previous club record transfers.

"Furthermore, l can say that the determining factor in agreeing to the transfer, albeit that it was only reluctantly and finally accepted on Wednesday morning, was the fact that the fee was to be paid immediately with further substantial add-ons in the future, together with a substantial share of any future transfer proceeds.

"As has been stated on many occasions by other clubs, the biggest disadvantage of doing last minute transfers is the difficulty and almost impossible challenge of finding a replacement so late in the day, and as it turned out, despite making numerous enquiries and several offers to other clubs and players, we were unable to conclude a deal to replace Gary."

Speaking about Madine's transfer ahead of his side's Championship clash with Cardiff's Severnside rivals Bristol City tonight, Bolton boss Parkinson said: "The chairman all along was adamant we weren't going to sell him.

"However, the offer went up and up, and it got to the point where Ken had to make a judgement call and it's easy to say from outside that no-one wants to sell their top goalscorer, but we're not the ones who have to pay the wages each month."

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He's acting like he can't see his reasoning just look at the table!

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Not top quality, obviously, but he’ll suit us. Ward’s delivery will be key to making the best of GM.
He’s not the answer but could be part of it.

Good that he actually wants to be our player. Not just a case of a club selling a player because they needed the money, with the player having little say.

He’s hardworking, which fits in with most of our squad. I think he’ll do well for us. I’ve criticised Zohore recently but I agree with others that a partnership between these two could be perfect.

My only worry with Madine is his off the field issues. He was in prison as recently as 2014 I think? Good job Tomlin has gone to Forest on loan, can only imagine the two of them on a night out.

Eager to come. Always a good thing.

I wonder if the fact that he put in a transfer request would have the lowered the fee expectations of the Bolton chairman. Can't really hold out in case he is left with a player that doesn't really want to play.

Eager to come. Always a good thing.

I wonder if the fact that he put in a transfer request would have the lowered the fee expectations of the Bolton chairman. Can't really hold out in case he is left with a player that doesn't really want to play.

Their statement is a bit odd they said gave him big pay rise yet they can't really afford it! Was it a ploy to get more out of a buying club? He was never going to stay once he put in transfer request?

Not top quality, obviously, but he’ll suit us. Ward’s delivery will be key to making the best of GM.
He’s not the answer but could be part of it.

This presupposes Ward has been brought in to start. Feeney is our best crosser anyway.

Not top quality, obviously, but he’ll suit us. Ward’s delivery will be key to making the best of GM.
He’s not the answer but could be part of it.

This presupposes Ward has been brought in to start. Feeney is our best crosser anyway.

You're going to get hammered by a few on here for praising Feeney

I do agree though, His crosses are brilliant

Give me a hard working player that wants to be here over an expensive journeyman any day!

Not top quality, obviously, but he’ll suit us. Ward’s delivery will be key to making the best of GM.
He’s not the answer but could be part of it.

This presupposes Ward has been brought in to start. Feeney is our best crosser anyway.

You're going to get hammered by a few on here for praising Feeney

I do agree though, His crosses are brilliant

I agree as well. A little surprised he hasn’t started recently, with the form of NML.

Did very well against Man City as well, despite not playing long. Won’t be surprised if he’s in the first team sooner rather than later.

Not top quality, obviously, but he’ll suit us. Ward’s delivery will be key to making the best of GM.
He’s not the answer but could be part of it.

This presupposes Ward has been brought in to start. Feeney is our best crosser anyway.

You're going to get hammered by a few on here for praising Feeney

I do agree though, His crosses are brilliant

i think brilliant is over stating it some what.

i remember the fulham match, the one for the goal was fantastic, but the other 4 or 5 he put over were awful

Why wouldn't he want to join us? We were offering a far more lucrative contract. No different from Grabban joining Villa in that respect..

In response to the Feeney situation. I honestly believe he looked really sharp, quick and Agile against Man City, and has never REALLY shown those qualities before in the league for us. Perhaps - in his eyes - his contract extension has given him motivation to play at a higher level than he was with us because he may be concerned that if we’re not interested come the end of the season then he could be back in League 1 (if blackburn don’t achieve promotion).

I disagree about his crossing though. I think I’ve seen about 3 decent crosses from him including one brilliant one to assist a Ward goal on Feeneys debut. I’m not gonna lie though people, he has made as many horrendous crosses too. I think Manga delivers better crosses IMO. I do think it might be a first impression thing with some of you, because he managed an assist in his debut, maybe he gave himself a lot of brownie points with you... he literally has one assist though.

I appreciate also that we don’t have a target man or anything like that, but I haven’t seen a decent cross from him since his debut.

Having said that, I still want him to do well and I like him for some reason, he has an honesty about him where he doesn’t look like he taunts opponents or tries to be flashy when it’s not needed, he doesn’t try to beat people he just tries to gain an extra few inches of space for a cross. If he did more of what he did against Man City - quick feet beating 2 Man City players down the wing - then great. But when he got passed them I think he lost it eventually. Other than his debut cross assist, I don’t believe Feeny has an end product.. though I would start him over Mendez Lang at this point because his final ball is even worse haha

Not top quality, obviously, but he’ll suit us. Ward’s delivery will be key to making the best of GM.
He’s not the answer but could be part of it.

This presupposes Ward has been brought in to start. Feeney is our best crosser anyway.

You're going to get hammered by a few on here for praising Feeney

I do agree though, His crosses are brilliant

No from me. Feeney may not be an all rounder but my god can he deliver a cross.

Madine had been involved in 60% of Bolton goals!not bad record shows what we are getting.

Bolton in the cart without him, though hope they give the Wurzels a beating tonight

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Why wouldn't he want to join us? We were offering a far more lucrative contract. No different from Grabban joining Villa in that respect..

Apparently bolton offered the same wages but only a years contract

Feeney hasn’t the pace but he is strong and passes well rather than NML who just looses his head in the final third.

I’ve read that the offer for Madine was accepted days before the window shut although Madine only accepted on TDD? Hmmm desperate to join I think not