The 38-year old former Tottenham Hotspur defender who made over 300 appearances for the club between 1995 and 2003 has told Bolton manager Sam Allardyce that he will not be the man to replace injury victim Florent Laville in the heart of the Bolton defence despite the Icelandic international's guest appearance at the club last weekend.
"I asked Gudni at the Chairman's Ball and even after I plied him with two bottles of wine he wouldn't say yes," the Bolton boss said. "That's a non-starter."
However Allardyce did confirm that two unnamed trialists from Croatia and Serbia where training with the club but it remains to be seen whether either have the quality to fill in for Laville whilst he is out injured, but the Bolton manager was ruling nothing out.
"We have a couple of players with us at the moment, one from Serbia and Montenegro and the other from Croatia," he said.
"We'll have a look at them over the next few days and we'll see how they go from there. They are, from all accounts, in a position to sign for us if we think they are good enough.
"We know that they won't be the finished article as they haven't been training or playing with other clubs."