Bolton Wanderers Football Club News

• Nickname:Wanderers
• Founded:1874
• Manager:Owen Coyle

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• Capacity:28,000

Megson eyes new signings

12 Nov 2008 - 16:27:39

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Bolton Wanderers manager Gary Megson plans to sign several new players in the January transfer window in an attempt to bolster his wafer-thin squad.

Since replacing Sammy Lee in the Reebok Stadium hot-seat just over one year ago, Megson has allowed 18 players to leave the club permanently or on loan, while signing only eight.

After being forced to name youngsters Chris Basham, Temitope Obadeyi and Rob Sissons on the substitutes bench at Hull City on Saturday, the Trotters boss is aware of the lack of depth in his squad.

He told the Bolton News: "We have some decent players at this football club. We just need to add to them with a few more bodies.

"That means when a few people drop out through injury and suspension, as we had at the weekend, we're not having to put a great onus on the kids coming through and learning their trade.

"There were three of them on the bench against Hull and we'd have had the confidence to put them on if we needed to. But when you look at other peoples' benches, there's obviously a lot of work for us to do.

"We're down on numbers but it had to happen. You can have 70 players in your squad, but it doesn't matter if you can't get a decent eleven out."

Meanwhile, Megson has refused to allow Danny Shittu to join Derby County on loan, although he seems set to sanction Heidar Helguson's temporary switch to QPR.