Samuel Iling-Junior

Left Wingback - Bolton Wanderers
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Samuel Iling-Junior

5 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market31 Aug 2026

Eoin Toal puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bolton Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Both of them Atsuki Ito's — 8.32

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Justin Heekeren is a medical away from Bolton Wanderers

The deal with Anderlecht is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

No thanks: Romano Postema rejects the move

Bolton Wanderers had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Viking, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Atsuki Ito in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bolton Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Sam Dalby out for 19 days

The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Sam Dalby, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match29 Aug 2026

Bolton Wanderers find a way past Rotherham United

Rotherham United made Bolton Wanderers work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Bolton Wanderers rebuffed over Ivan Zlobin

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Famalicao have kept their man, and Bolton Wanderers go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Samuel Iling-Junior

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Samuel Iling-Junior runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market24 Aug 2026

Milton Keynes Dons come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bolton Wanderers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Bolton Wanderers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Atsuki Ito was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Bolton Wanderers

Josh Sheehan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Nottingham Forest tell Bolton Wanderers: Steven Benda is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match22 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Bolton Wanderers against Stockport County

1‑2 to Stockport County, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Xavier Simons gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Andy Cannon is a square peg at Bolton Wanderers

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Stephen Graham left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief