{"id":374044,"date":"2026-01-16T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374044\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:56:11","slug":"bolton-wanderers-boss-on-keeper-gamble-in-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374044\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Wanderers boss on keeper &#8216;gamble&#8217; in transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Wanderers boss will plunge Jack Bonham in for his debut against fierce rivals Wigan Athletic tomorrow afternoon, just two days after the 32-year-old trained with his team-mates for the first time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It follows a week where both the club\u2019s first team keepers quit the club \u2013 Teddy Sharman-Lowe recalled by Chelsea, and Tyler Miller indicating that he was returning home to the US after his family struggled to settle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Schumacher insists the move for Bonham was always on the cards after both Sharman-Lowe and Miller had struggled for consistency in the first half of the season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But he maintains the timing of the deals \u2013 which also involved David Harrington being signed from Fleetwood Town on a two-and-a-half-year deal \u2013 was out of his hands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked if it was a \u2018gamble\u2019 so close to key games at Wigan and Stevenage, he told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Bolton News<\/a>: \u201cThere&#8217;s nothing we can do about it!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cChelsea called Teddy back\u00a0and we were going to bring Jack in anyway\u00a0when Tyler was gone,\u00a0so there&#8217;s nothing we can do about it now.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s a gamble,\u00a0that&#8217;s the situation.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wanderers will use their fourth goalkeeper of the season at the Brick Community Stadium looking to arrest a worrying dip in form which has seen them win just once in their last seven games.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Schumacher felt his goalkeeping department needed improvement, although the timing of Miller\u2019s departure has meant a much greater turnover than expected.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt&#8217;s a bit unusual,\u201d he said. \u201cI don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s unprecedented,\u00a0but I&#8217;ve not seen it before.\u00a0But as I say, we feel as though that department,\u00a0we haven&#8217;t had the results from it that we wanted.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI think Teddy&#8217;s done a lot of good things for us\u00a0in the first half of the season,\u00a0but there were goals that went in\u00a0that we feel as though shouldn&#8217;t have gone in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe made mistakes in the Exeter game\u00a0and the Mansfield game that, again, can be avoided.\u00a0Now, in any young goalkeeper&#8217;s career, that can happen.\u00a0But I said to him the other day to learn from this experience,\u00a0and he will have learned from it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt is part of his development\u00a0if he&#8217;s had a little bit of a setback to be able to go again.\u00a0And I&#8217;m sure he will.\u00a0There&#8217;ll be people queuing up to take him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut here at this moment, where we are,\u00a0under the pressure and the circumstances\u00a0of what our fans bring,\u00a0I think bringing in somebody with that calmer head\u00a0and that experience is probably the right call.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe Tyler Miller one is something that we didn&#8217;t see coming.\u00a0We gave him a contract in the summer\u00a0and expected him to see it out\u00a0and we&#8217;re even considering extending.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut when he came to me and said, look,\u00a0this opportunity has come up for him to go back to America\u00a0and it&#8217;s something that he and his family really want to take.\u00a0He&#8217;s a really good guy.\u00a0He was 30-odd years of age.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cYou don&#8217;t want to stand in his way and say no.\u00a0And then six months later, we don&#8217;t give him a contract\u00a0and that&#8217;s not there.\u00a0I&#8217;m not that type of person.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIf he feels that we can still strengthen the department,\u00a0which he feels that we have,\u00a0then it was OK for him to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wanderers boss will plunge Jack Bonham in for his debut against fierce rivals Wigan Athletic tomorrow 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