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Bolton chairman blasts Allardyce's Newcastle

Bolton Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside has fired another broadside at Newcastle United manager Sam Allardyce.

Gartside is angry at the Newcastle boss for going back on their agreement not to take any of the Reebok backroom team and is insisting they serve out 12 months' notice.

Sammy Lee is appointing a new team - including Frank McParland as general manager - and Gartside claims they will make Wanderers more professional.

"I'm trying to get people who wanted contracts with 12 months' notice to work their notice," he said.

"If that makes me sad and bitter, then so be it. But people have gone and there was an agreement that he shouldn't take them with him.

"Far from making things difficult, we're finding it quite easy to replace them with better quality people. They will make us a much more professional outfit."

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