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Will Winter Dampen Ivan Klasnic’s Positivity?

Bolton’s newcomer Ivan Klasnic was interviewed for today’s match programme and Megson or Gartside made sure he used the word ‘positive’ in relation to the club’s mentality.

“I was impressed with everything that I saw. The stadium is excellent and everyone at the club has a positive mentality.”

The word ‘positive’ always seems to pop up during player interviews, I’m fairly certain that Kevin Davies, Jussi Jaaskelainen, even Johan Elmander used it preseason, along with the Bolton’s new signings who praised the positive attitudes of their new colleagues.

Should we believe that there is a constant positive attitude amongst the Bolton squad or is it just spin? Perhaps there is a clause in the players’ contracts that stipulates that players must be publicly positive on all occasions and must express this verbally to the media at every opportunity.

Not that there’s anything wrong with being positive, as long as it does not lead to overly overt optimism — know thy limits!

Ivan went on to say;

“The sun was shining on my first day and we went on to win our game at Portsmouth, so I had a very good week.”

Hang on to that fond memory Ivan, it’s going to be a bleak winter and I don’t just mean meteorologically. However, it turns out that Klasnic refused to sign for a Premier League club because of England’s chilly climate.

Former Wigan manager Steve Bruce tried to sign Ivan Klasnic in 2008’s summer transfer window but, according to the Mail Online, the English climate was medically too cold for the Croatian international.

“Bruce’s medical team looked into hit man Klasnic’s background and found out that he needs to play in a warm climate because of a kidney problem.”

There are two explanations for Ivan declining a move to Wigan in 2008. Either Ivan identified that WAFC would be a shit team to play for or cold weather does cause problems but 14 months global warming has made the move to dreary England possible.

Whether the weather affects Klansic remains to be seen but something tells me it won’t.

The Bolton News — Ivan Klasnic enjoying life at Bolton Wanderers
Mail Online — Wigan miss out on Croatia striker Klasnic because of the cold weather