YOURI Djorkaeff has promised Wanderers fans there will be no relegation jitters next season -- if they can win this year's survival fight.

The French midfield force believes the club has the playing strength to win this year's relegation fight and ensure there will be no repeat of the dogfight scenario next season.

Djorkaeff admits he has been surprised by how difficult it has been trying to help keep the side up.

But after two seasons of struggle he is convinced this will be the Reebok's last season at the bottom.

"It is crazy that we are near the bottom after the way we have played all season," he said.

"It has been an unlucky season for us. Normally when you play like we have done you would be getting ready for your holidays or playing to qualify for the Inter Toto, not playing for survival.

"It is crazy to be where we are with the quality and experience of the players.

"Next season can be completely different.

"I did not know it was so hard to help a club stay in the Premier League but it is okay for me because I have the power and mentality to do it.

"People see me differently now because they might not have thought I would fight so hard for a club like I am fighting for Bolton."

Sam Allardyce also sees better times ahead, as long as they stay up and especially if he gets the

resources to continue the progress of the last three years.

"This is a very talented side," he declared. "Progress depends on how much the board make available to me next year, purely and simply.

"If you spend more you get better talent into the club and you get a better side.

"Things have really started to come together since December because of the number of players we brought in who had to settle into the team. That is the major problem with the short term fix that we use.

"Bringing and bonding the players together is a huge task.

"It could have been a lot better if we had one 20-goal player because chances created would have been converted by that man."

That man was expected to be Michael Ricketts at the start of the season but it was not to be due to his injury, lack of form and departure.

Once Henrik Pedersen got into his stride with four goals in six games Wanderers found out how much better life in the Premiership can be with a prolific goalscorer.

Success is nothing new to World Cup winner Djorkaeff.

Yet he sees his latest challenge of keeping Wanderers in the top flight as special.

"I would like it if people thought of me when they think of Bolton like they think of Paolo di Canio," he admitted.

"I have had a lot of success at my clubs and in my life and to give a little part of me for people to remember me by is very important to me.

"In Bolton my relationship with the people and with the club is very good. I know the people and I know they love me and I want to repay them by giving everything I can to their club."

Djorkaeff forms the heartbeat of the first Bolton side ever to feature 11 foreign players.

And the most famous foreigner in the club's history does not believe it is a bad thing that there are no Brits in the side.

"For the players it is not a problem. When we play I am not looking to see if he is English or Danish. We all work together.

"It is the manager decides the team and he puts the better players in the team.

"It is not a problem for the players and I am sure it is the same for the fans."

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