CLAUS Jensen, Eidur Gudjohnsen and Andy Todd could all go in the after-shock of the Bolton bombshell.

The three young guns are the most saleable commodities on the Wanderers' payroll and could follow Per Frandsen through the exit door to raise funds for the cash-strapped club.

It is generally expected that Frandsen's transfer to Blackburn in a bargain £2.25 million deal - a development that finally persuaded Colin Todd to quit as manager - will not be the last.

Such is the club's parlous financial state that, despite raising a potential £9 million in two days with the confirmed sale of the old Burnden Park site plus the Frandsen deal, chairman Gordon Hargreaves says the club is still not in a position to re-invest in new players.

It is the talk of the dressing room that at least two deals are already lined up and that it's the best of the young talent - up-and-coming striker Gudjohnsen, classy midfielder Jensen and the increasingly impressive young centre-back Todd - who are being lined up for moves.

And in an ironic twist, Mark Fish could also be on his way out.

It was the failure to attract suitable bids for Fish and Frandsen during the summer, when Colin Todd was resigned to losing his two internationals, that saw the financial constraints tightened to the extent that the manager finally decided his ambitions for the club could no longer be satisfied.

Whatever the coming weeks hold for Wanderers it is evident that fans, angered by the loss of the powerfully influential Frandsen to their local rivals for such a low fee, are in store for more disappointments.

And there are even more problems on the horizon. Seven members of the current first team squad - Keith Branagan, Gudni Bergsson, Mike Whitlow, Jimmy Phillips, Neil Cox, Michael Johansen and Bob Taylor - are all out of contract at the end of the season with no prospect in the current financial climate of negotiating new deals.

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