{"id":372282,"date":"2026-01-16T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372282\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:05:08","slug":"stockport-county-sign-bolton-wanderers-josh-dacres-cogley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372282\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockport County sign Bolton Wanderers&#8217; Josh Dacres-Cogley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The right-back made 126 appearances for <a href=\"http:\/\/theboltonnews.co.uk\/wanderers?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wanderers<\/a> in two-and-a-half years, scoring four times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He played 18 times for Steven Schumacher\u2019s side this season but fell behind Cyrus Christie and Jordi Osei-Tutu in the pecking order and until he lined-up against Port Vale in the Vertu Trophy on Tuesday night, had not featured since the 4-0 FA Cup defeat at Swindon Town at the start of December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stockport boss Dave Challinor said the defender\u2019s availability in January had come as some surprise to him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe are delighted to welcome Josh to the club,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s been a player that\u2019s been on our radar for some time, but I think it\u2019s fair to say that we didn\u2019t think he\u2019d be available &#8211; so to add him to our group is great.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe has brilliant experience at the level, at a club with expectation, and he\u2019s the perfect profile for what we want as a right-back or wing-back. I know he\u2019s excited about the challenge ahead of him, and we\u2019re really looking forward to working with him and being successful together.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  County\u2019s head of recruitment, Jonathan Smith added: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to bring in a player that we\u2019ve tracked closely over a long period, going back to his time at Tranmere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHis physical attributes are exceptional; he understands the demands of the level we are currently at, and he gives us a solution in a position that\u2019s been a clear focus for us.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHis availability has also been exceptional over an extended period of time. It\u2019s a move that makes sense on every level.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dacres-Cogley becomes the fifth first team departure of the January transfer window, joining Will Forrester, Victor Adeboyejo, Tyler Miller and Teddy Sharman-Lowe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More exits are likely as Schumacher trims the size of his squad for the second half of the season, although the Bolton boss insist the club are still actively trying to recruit players who can add quality.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wanderers have added three players in the window so far \u2013 two goalkeepers, David Harrington and Jack Bonham, and Irish youngster Lewis Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The right-back made 126 appearances for Wanderers in two-and-a-half years, scoring four times. He played 18 times for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-372282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}