KEVIN Davies has fired a broadside at former team-mate El-Hadji Diouf for jumping ship in the summer.

Wanderers will renew acquaintances with the Senegal international for the first time since his £2.5million transfer to Wearside when they travel to the Stadium of Light.

But there are still those in the Whites’ dressing room who believe Diouf was wrong to turn his back on the Reebok.

Diouf announced back in April that he would leave the club, whether they avoided relegation or not, to go in search of European football.

Davies, for one, was surprised when he chose to join Roy Keane’s Sunderland – a side who finished just one place above Wanderers in the Premier League last season.

“He thinks he has gone on to a better team, we think differently,” the striker said.

Full story in Friday's The Bolton News