How Manchester United & Man City prospects could about to be snapped up by League One side

Bolton Wanderers are due to host several trial fixtures in the coming weeks to add prospects from top Premier League sides to their soon to be established B team.

Wanderers have chosen to develop their pathway to the first team and build upon the reserves they have adopted this season.

This team has competed in the EFL's Central League and been run by first-team coach Sam Hird, giving younger players a competitive division to play in and allow first-team players some minutes as they make returns from injury.

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But this will be developed for next season at the gap between the youth groups at Wanderers and the first-team. Wanderers have opted to go down the B team route, which the likes of Brentford, Huddersfield Town and Southampton have all gone down and not an under-23s set-up at this moment in time.

A B team manager is also set to be appointed as work progresses on the new set-up and, to help add bodies to swell the ranks of the new side, several trial fixtures will be held, Wanderers boss Ian Evatt has said.

One is poised to take place next week with others occuring after the end of the season, with players released by Category One academies including the likes of Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and other big teams in London being given a chance to impress at Bolton.

And Evatt believes it is an exciting prospect what is happening behind the scenes as the League One side aim to rebuild a bridge to the first team which has not existed in the same way since the club's under-23s outfit was discontinued in 2020 as part of an overhaul of the academy.

Evatt told the Manchester Evening News: "We have