{"id":684672,"date":"2026-07-10T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684672\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:19:10","slug":"bolton-boss-schumacher-gives-update-on-amario-cozier-duberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684672\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton boss Schumacher gives update on Amario Cozier-Duberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Cozier-Duberry had a dream loan spell at the Toughsheet Stadium last term, becoming a fan favourite as Schumacher\u2019s side secured promotion back to the Championship.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Supporters have been following his situation with a keen interest this summer. Some reports suggested that the 21-year-old could extend his stay at the Amex, while others claimed West Ham were interested in his services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Johnny Kenny, Mason Burstow, Ibrahim Cissoko, Corey Blackett-Taylor, Marcus Forss and Rob Apter also spent time at the Toughsheet Stadium.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When asked if last season\u2019s loan players are \u2018off the radar\u2019 now, Schumacher replied: \u201cNo-one&#8217;s off the radar. They&#8217;re all really good players\u00a0and have done excellently for us last season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI spoke to Amario a couple of weeks ago\u00a0and his plan is to go back into Brighton\u00a0and start pre-season with them,\u00a0so I hope he goes and does really well.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI just said to him, play with the same energy and enthusiasm\u00a0that he did with us every single day,\u00a0and try to impress the manager.\u00a0He impressed us from day one,\u00a0and I&#8217;m sure if he does that\u2026 he&#8217;s infectious.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI hope he gets an opportunity at Brighton,\u00a0I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll play the pre-season games there. I don&#8217;t know exactly what their World Cup personnel are,\u00a0who is and isn\u2019t there,\u00a0but let&#8217;s hope he gets an opportunity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAll our loan players have done great for us last year,\u00a0and I wouldn&#8217;t rule any of it out.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wanderers have made five signings so far this summer, with David Watson, Ben Davies, Akin Famewo, Luca Stephenson and Kyliane Dong coming through the door.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe&#8217;ve got a good mix, a good blend,\u201d the head coach added. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got some lads with some Championship experience,\u00a0which again is so important,\u00a0and we&#8217;ve brought in some lads with some real potential.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cPlayers who are obviously from this area and know what English football is about,\u00a0and British football,\u00a0and then we&#8217;ve brought a young foreign lad who looks really exciting,\u00a0and one that we can&#8217;t wait to actually get working with.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe&#8217;s only had a couple of days on the grass with us,\u00a0so he hasn&#8217;t trained as of yet with the group. But pleased with it so far,\u00a0obviously five in, and there&#8217;s still a lot more to do.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But there is still more work to do in the market as Bolton aim to make sure they are ready to hit the ground running in the second tier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cLogically where we&#8217;re at,\u00a0if you look across our squad now,\u00a0we&#8217;ve got a couple of left-backs,\u00a0we&#8217;ve got good centre-back options,\u00a0we&#8217;ve brought in Luca Stephenson,\u00a0we&#8217;ve got Cyrus (Christie) at right-back options,\u00a0we&#8217;ve got good numbers in midfield,\u201d Schumacher continued.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt&#8217;s probably the forward areas where we&#8217;re a little bit short.\u00a0We&#8217;ve seen Kyliane coming in,\u00a0who can play on either wing. He can play as a nine as well,\u00a0but we&#8217;ve seen him playing in the wide areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cCentre-forwards and a couple more wide players\u00a0are definitely the priority,\u00a0but there will be other positions as well that we&#8217;ll strengthen\u00a0because we need to go into the Championship\u00a0with as strong a squad as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cozier-Duberry had a dream loan spell at the Toughsheet Stadium last term, becoming a fan favourite as Schumacher\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684672","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=684672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}