Opinion: Preston North End should look to pip Bolton Wanderers in summer transfer deal for 23-year-old

There could be an exciting summer in the works for Preston North End, who will be looking to add to their squad ahead of a potential play-off push for the 2022-23 season.

Of course the top six this season isn’t beyond the realms of possibility, but it would take a monumental run of results and a drop-off in form for quite a few teams above them in the table for Ryan Lowe’s side to end the campaign in the play-offs.

It’s now probably more realistic to look at next season and who could possibly arrive at Deepdale as we know there could be a mass exodus of out of contract players and there are three Premier League loanees on the books that all look destined to move on to greater things in the near future.

One of the key elements of Lowe’s style of play is the utilisation of wing-backs and how he likes them to get very high up the pitch and be key in the transition to attacking phases.

The left-wing-back spot is probably the position that needs strengthening most urgently with Josh Earl’s performances not impressing many this season, whereas on the opposite side of the pitch Brad Potts has made the right-wing-back role his own.

Potts has been good in the short-term but Lowe probably needs to be looking at someone younger for that role, and there could be an ideal candidate currently plying his trade just down the M61 at the University of Bolton Stadium that fits the bill.

At the age of 23, Marlon Fossey has little senior football experience despite coming through the Fulham academy system, and before the January transfer window this year his only stint in men’s football was a loan spell in 2020 at Shrewsbury Town.

Bolton Wanderers though decided to take a punt on the American though on a loan deal, and he’s flourished at the