Bolton Wanderers' first season back in the Championship for seven years is starting to take shape, and the club hopes their hard work on recruitment can start to bear fruit. The draw for the first round of the Carabao Cup will be made on Thursday, which will provide Bolton with their opening game of the season. Sporting director Fergal Harkin has hinted that up to three more players could be added before the squad returns to Lostock for pre-season training. However, outgoing transfers are also on the checklist, with the club ready to listen to offers for Joel Randall, who spent the second half of last season on loan at Blackpool. Randall struggled to replicate the kind of form he had shown in flashes at Peterborough United, and his only goal for the club came in the 3-0 win against AFC Wimbledon in September. Another player whose future at Wanderers looks insecure is defender Richard Taylor, whose move from St Mirren last summer did not work out as successfully as expected. Taylor made just one league start all season and did not make the matchday squad since starting in a 0-0 draw against Northampton Town in January. Ian Evatt, Randall's former manager, has hinted he may be open to another effort to coax Randall back to form, describing the 26-year-old as one of the best players in League One at his best. The club will now listen to offers, loan or permanent, for both Randall and Taylor, with their chances of regular football in the Championship looking slim. Bolton Wanderers' recruitment team has already started groundwork on several signings that the club feels can make them competitive in the Championship. The market is expected to remain slow until the end of the World Cup, but the club is hopeful that their hard work will pay off. The league schedule will be announced at midday on Friday, and all attention will be fixed on how Wanderers intend to build a squad capable of competing in the second tier. The signing of defender Ben Davies and midfielder David Watson is a positive start, but more work needs to be done to strengthen the squad. The club's fans will be eagerly waiting to see who will be the next players to join the squad, and who will be leaving the club this summer.