Earlier this week Sammy Lee’s Bolton Wanderers pulled off an extraordinary plan by managing to trick French striker Nicolas Anelka into signing a contract extension.

Inside information has told us that the Bolton manager Sammy Lee had falsely informed Anelka that they had accepted an offer from Manchester United. Our inside source goes on to tell us that Anelka was so pleased with his apparent move, that he failed to read any of the contract that Sammy Lee had given him. The title of the contract was in fact “Transfer to Manchester United”, however, Anelka had actually signed a contract extension till 2011.

EatFootball managed to catch up with an ecstatic Sammy Lee “Well, we finally did it! We had been planning this for months and after all of the clubs efforts it’s great to see the plan work. Now we can concentrate on winning games”.

Sammy Lee then went on to explain that Anelka is now the lowest paid player in the premiership, earning just over £140 a week, of which 90% of his salary is now donated to the ‘Belarusian Bikes for Bats’ charity. Other clauses were also sneaked into the contract, including the immediate sale of Anelka’s 14 bedroom house for club funds and the ever popular ‘no win no fee’ clause.

A spokesman for Nicolas Anelka said he was “displeased” with his new contract.