IVAN Campo has been told he still has a future at Bolton Wanderers, if he can recapture the form that won him a key role in the Whites success story.
The Spaniard, whose contract expires at the end of the season, is free to speak to other clubs and has been strongly linked with a return to Real Mallorca.
But Sam Allardyce refuses to write him off. The Wanderers boss revealed that he would be prepared to discuss a new contract with the former Real Madrid ace, provided he hits form again.
Campo, who has spent almost three months of the season sidelined by a broken foot, missed Saturday's FA Cup third round tie at Watford, serving the last of a three-match suspension imposed for a red card in a recent reserve game.
But, with Abdoulaye Faye on African Nations Cup duty with Senegal, he will be in the reckoning at Blackburn next Saturday when he could return to the holding midfield role he once made his own.
"I'd like to think Ivan could get back to the level he was at when he played in that key position we always called the 'Campo Role'," Allardyce said.
"He's been fit for a while and would have been involved more, but for his own stupidity in getting himself sent off in a reserve fixture.
"That was childish, but he's served the suspension now and, if he can get up and at 'em again, he could secure himself a contract with us."
Now in the final six months of his current deal, Campo is free to pledge himself to another club at the end of the season by signing a pre-contract agreement.
"Even if someone did 'pre-contract' him, he wouldn't be leaving here until the end of the season," the manager said.
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