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New Deal for Bowditch?
New Deal for Bowditch?
Thursday, 29th May 2008 12:52

Town are reportedly set to offer striker Dean Bowditch a new deal. The 21-year-old's current contract is up at the end of June, but boss Jim Magilton is reluctant to allow the former England U19 leave the club, despite failing to win a first team place last season.

Magilton had been expected to release the former Burnley, Wycombe, Northampton and Brighton loanee along with Spanish full-back Sito, but revealed earlier in the month that he would speak to Bowditch about his future: "Dean has not been offered a new contract but I will sit down and have a heart to heart with him, look him in the eye and see where his ambitions lie.”

Bowditch has always been highly rated by the Town management with first team coach Bryan Klug, the Harlow-born striker's mentor in his academy days, telling TWTD during the 2006/07 season: "Dean was without doubt one of the most talented players we've had through our academy. I struggle to think of a more talented technical player, but technical players find it more physical when it comes to the first team and the Championship.

”I think Dean has had problems adjusting to that and in my opinion has tried to become a player playing a different style and not being what Dean Bowditch is: a technical player who plays as much as he can without contact. If he loses that ability to find space and get in between people, he's not as good a player and because of that he has lost a lot of confidence.”

Bowditch is likely to be given another year in which to prove himself at Portman Road.


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