George Johnston

Central Defender - Bolton Wanderers
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Marked for George Johnston

6 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market7 Sep 2026

Cyrus Christie hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bolton Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 16 in, 3 out at Bolton Wanderers

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Sonny Bradley is a medical away from Bolton Wanderers

The deal with Lincoln City 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 targets7 Sep 2026

Santiago Beltrán turns down Bolton Wanderers

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Huesca keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Bolton Wanderers

Julio Soler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Number 100 for Ryan Hardie

100 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Bolton Wanderers rebuffed over Kjell Peersman

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

Match5 Sep 2026

Bolton Wanderers see off Port Vale

Three points for Bolton Wanderers, 2‑0 the final word against Port Vale in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Atsuki Ito was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Iliya Gruev

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bolton Wanderers have done the hard part with Leeds United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Atsuki Ito signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Atsuki Ito commits to Bolton Wanderers for another 4 years.

Squad10 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.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Rúben Rodrigues 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No place for Ollie O'Neill in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Bolton Wanderers are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Bolton Wanderers are still strangers to each other

14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Atsuki Ito knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Atsuki Ito trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market10 Aug 2026

Bolton Wanderers and Kyle Dempsey are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market10 Aug 2026

Nobody at Bolton Wanderers has picked up the phone to George Johnston

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief