TEAMS Valur PSV KR Bolton Chelsea Barcelona Monaco Tottenham (loan) Stoke Fulham (loan) AEK Athens Cercle Brugge Club Brugge Shijiazhuang Ever Bright Molde Pune City Iceland
How much did you know about Bolton Wanderers ahead of your deal in 1998?
Not much. I moved to PSV when I was 16, and during my first full season with the first team I broke my ankle and was injured for the rest of my contract. Afterwards I was at KR in Reykjavik for a couple of months. But at that time, Bolton had two Icelandic players who I knew well, Arnar Gunnlaugsson and Gudni Bergsson, and they convinced the club to buy me. Phil Brown – assistant to Colin Todd, the manager at Bolton – called to invite me for a trial, and after the second session they confirmed that they wanted to sign me.