With keith hill starting his first day in the job and several signings expected worth a thread on it's own. We have 12 professionals and can register 23 in total as part of the embargo so a possible 11 signings or more if players can be shifted out. Scolars are not affected .
Current Professional Squad: Ben Alnwick, Remi Matthews, Harry Brockbank, Jack Hobbs, Yoan Zouma, Liam Edwards, Josh Earl(on loan from Preston), Luke Murphy, Jason Lowe, David Weir, Dennis Politic, Connor Hall.
Ins: Thibault Verlinden(Stoke City loan until January 2020), Liam Bridcutt(Nottingham Forest loan until January 2020), Will Buckley(Bolton Wanderers free until January 2020), Jake Wright(Sheffield United loan until January 2020), Ali Crawford(Doncaster Rovers until June 2020), Chris O'Grady(Oldham Athletic until June 2020), Josh Emmanuel(Ipswich Town until June 2020), Joe Bunney(Northampton Town until June 2020), Daryl Murphy(Nottingham Forest until June 2020).
Outs
Transfer deadline day 2nd September 2019
posted on 2/9/19
Updated the list. 9 in none out? Right back, left back, centre back, 2 central midfielders, 2 wingers, 2 strikers.
posted on 2/9/19
Just a winger short of a 4 4 2 today.
posted on 2/9/19
who is the other winger other than Verlinden?
posted on 2/9/19
Re-signed Buckley.
All in all a productive day, and as Cid says possibly not done if we can bag another decent freebie or 2.
posted on 2/9/19
I think hill likes 4-3-3 so 2 wingers either side of a centre crash. Bit more attacking than the parky 4-2-3-1
posted on 2/9/19
What’s happening with Gary O’Neil &
Ben Alnwick, anyone think they will be added to the squad.
posted on 3/9/19
Gary O'Neil might. He gave a cryptic reply to a tweet today.
posted on 3/9/19
Amazingly interesting day. I can't remember us ever signing 9 on a single day before can you? For the first time in far too long we're talking about ON-field stuff without having to worry about the off-field things that have plagued our club for far too long.
posted on 3/9/19
Possibly never since our team signed up to go to war or to go down the pit have we had to sign so many players to fill the void of players leaving the club? Albeit for massively differing reasons.
Of the 35 players on the staff of Bolton Wanderers, 32 joined the armed services and the other three went into the coal mines and munitions. This included Harry Hubbick, who resumed his career down the pits and Jack Atkinson and George Hunt served in the local police force. A total of 17 players, including Harry Goslin, Danny Winter, Billy Ithell, Albert Geldard, Tommy Sinclair, Don Howe, Ray Westwood, Ernie Forrest, Jackie Roberts, Jack Hurst and Stan Hanson, joined the 53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment.
The author does not say how many young players were recruited during the war years but we do know that Nat Lofthouse was one young player who despite going down the pit as his part of the war effort, got his chance to play for our team.
However, I think that we can assume that there were probably more young players required then than have been recruited this season.
Let's hope that we never again find ourselves in similar situations in the future of our club.
posted on 3/9/19
I was just thinking how ironic my last sentence is on the above post. Usually, we are willing new signings on the last day of the transfer season. I sincerely hope that we never need nine to come in again, otherwise we will be in a terrible state.