Bolton Wanderers retained list provides clear transfer window priorities for recruitment

The present make-up of the Bolton Wanderers squad following the end of the League One season gives a clear state of where strengthening is perhaps needed.

A total of eight players are leaving the University of Bolton Stadium when their playing contracts at Wanderers end this summer.

Of the players that have been announced will be leaving, there were not too many shocks about those who will be released in the weeks to come.

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Alex Baptiste is 36 and did not feature much in the second half of the season at the back as the likes of Ricardo Santos, Will Aimson, Gethin Jones and George Johnston filled the back three.

Baptiste is keen to continue his playing career for all long as he can and is now poised to do so away from Wanderers after his second spell at the club came to an end and is a big influence and experienced player to no longer be in the dressing room.

Midfielder Andrew Tutte had terrible luck with injuries this campaign which meant he turned out just once in the season which has just concluded and was down the pecking order in the engine room which also includes MJ Williams, Aaron Morley, Kyle Dempsey and George Thomason - not to mention the absent Josh Sheehan who will return to action in pre-season from a ruptured ACL and Kieran Lee from a heel spur injury.

It is perhaps the area of the squad which is least pressing in terms of the need for reinforcements.

One player which drew a degree of surprise from fans on social media when it was announced he would be released and not kept on is Liam Gordon, the full-back who has played on the both the right and left flanks this campaign when injuries have