The Bolton Wanderers Herald
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ibrahim Cissoko runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 46. 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
Aston Villa 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Amario Cozier-Duberry, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75
A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nathan Broome 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 The request is on a desk at Bolton Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Amario Cozier-Duberry
At 21 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Bolton Wanderers get the job done against Reading
A 1‑0 win over Reading, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Isaac Holland signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Isaac Holland and Bolton Wanderers agree another 5 years.
In brief
- Market A long bet from Bolton Wanderers on Isaac Holland
- Squad Amario Cozier-Duberry finally opens his account
- Player ratings Xavier Simons shuts the door