DJIBRIL Diawara today declared: "I want to stay at Bolton permanently."

The £5m-rated French midfielder is excited about the prospect of making his name in the Premiership and is looking well beyond his 12-month loan deal at the Reebok.

"I would love to stay for more than a year," revealed the 26-year-old who picked the Reebok ahead of playing in Seria A in Italy.

The central midfielder, who has one Under-21 cap to his name, is eyeing full international honours with France and knows that making his mark in the Premiership is the best way he could achieve that ambition.

It would have been the easy option to stay in Italy where he won promotion to the top division with Torina last season.

He knows that coming to England means coming to terms with a big change in playing style to what he is used to but he is determined to make the transition in double quick time.

"I had a choice where to play next season and my choice was to come here," he explained through a translator.

"It's going to be different playing in England to how the game is played in Italy. The game is a lot more static in Italy but I have a month to prepare for the changes and I will be fit enough and ready to show how I can play.

"This is where I want to be. England is really moving and the standards are getting higher and higher and I want to show everyone that I am a good player. This is a great opportunity for me.

"Like everyone I want to play in the Premier League and show what I am worth. I do not know what lies ahead for Bolton Wanderers next season, we will see when the season starts."

The culture change starts for Diawara on Saturday when he swaps 60,000-capacity stadiums in Italy for the humble surroundings of Radcliffe Borough's Stainton Park to kick off his Wanderers career.

He will be joined by fellow new boy Henrik Pedersen and a number of other senior Wanderers players for the first pre-season game in front of an anticipated 2,000 crowd.

Assistant boss Phil Brown will be taking a near 30-strong squad of first team stars, youngsters and triallists to Radcliffe and plans to give them all 30 minutes each in three separate teams.

Brown said: "I've got 30 pros training at the moment including triallists and the majority of those will be playing at Radcliffe.

"It will be a chop and change session but I have told Radcliffe that thre wil be one or two big names. There will be a starting 30 minutes, a mid 30 and a final 30."

Ex-Blackburn and Bradford midfielder Billy McKinlay is expected to be one of the triallists on show as he bids to make a favourable impression on Wanderers after arriving at the club with his boots and asking for a chance in the same way Ian Marshall did 12 months ago.

Brown's first impressions of Diawara and Pedersen are as favourable as the two players' initial feelings about the club. "Both the new boys looked fantastic in their first day's training and their fitness levels are quite high. We are expecting big things from every player we sign."