Lewis Temple

Central Defender - Free Agent
25 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lewis Temple

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The Bolton Wanderers Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Paul Argney is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Home is on Raffaele Di Gennaro's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Bolton Wanderers are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Tempers go at Bolton Wanderers

Eoin Toal 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.

Player ratings

Ibrahim Cissoko runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ibrahim Cissoko falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bolton Wanderers against Bristol City

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

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Bolton Wanderers's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bolton Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thierry Gale

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Leonardo 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.

Squad

Words at Bolton Wanderers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ibrahim Cissoko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Loan watch

Corey Thomas has seen enough of Manchester City

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Bolton Wanderers, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Kyle Dempsey dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Bolton Wanderers and Hull City cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Hull City came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Squad

Ibrahim Cissoko knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bolton Wanderers, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Lewis Temple placed on the list

Bolton Wanderers have made Lewis Temple available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief