Bolton Wanderers are in a similar position to other Championship clubs regarding transfers - the outcry may be unjustified
That six-second clip that was shared around Bolton's X pages was a small snippet of a longer interview following their draw with Fleetwood. Ultimately, there'd have been frustration about the result, even if it is just pre-season.
That frustration resulted in Steve Schumacher's rather brutal honesty, but he elaborated on the lack of activity further in the interview.
"We can't rush and just bring players in for the sake of it," the Bolton boss said. "If they don't have the right quality or personality or character, then that's not what we want to do; we have to make sure we get the right people in.
Ultimately, six new arrivals have Bolton amongst the busier transfer windows in the Championship thus far, and that's even with the nature of the World Cup slowing down any business, as top clubs wait to see what their state of play is, which impacts sides in the EFL.
Schumacher outlines that every manager will be feeling the same frustration at not having everyone through the door right now, and reiterated his liking of Kenny, who has been linked with a return from Celtic this summer.
Bolton fans, like any other, have a right to be concerned, as they head into a campaign as a smaller fish in a bigger pond for the first time in around six years.
With the step-up in level, there'd be expectations that the squad's quality would have been raised more by now, but after being backed massively in League One, there perhaps should be a little more expectation that the Bolton squad will be good enough, at least come September 1st.
The Trotters travel to Sheffield Wednesday in the first round of the EFL Cup to open their 2026/27 campaign on August 8, before their Championship return commences a week later.
