When Liverpool's Owen Beck could make Bolton Wanderers debut & Man City loanee injury update

Bolton Wanderers will be patient and not throw Owen Beck straight into action after his loan move from Liverpool was confirmed in a bid to bring him up to speed with life at the League One club.

The 20-year-old became Bolton's fifth acquisition of the penultimate day of the transfer window as he joined from the Premier League side on loan for the campaign. He had been on loan at Portuguese side Famalicao, but that was cut short so he could join Bolton.

He follows Eoin Toal and Jack Iredale joining on permanent deals from Derry City and Cambridge United this summer. Defender and Beck's team-mate Conor Bradley has joined from Liverpool, while goalkeeper James Trafford has been signed up again from Manchester City.

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Beck did not feature for Famalicao and as a result, the young defender is behind where Wanderers need him to be in their fitness tests. It could therefore be a couple of weeks before the prospect is seen in action.

Bolton boss Ian Evatt explained: “Owen has only been with us for a couple of days now and physically we need to get him up to speed. We have a bit of a fitness test we do with all of our players to get a good guide as to where they’re at and Owen is slightly behind where we need him at the moment.

“It’s still very early days and he’s got the whole season and we’ll work with him to get him up to speed and I think he’s going to be a huge player for us this season. But for now if we threw him into the deep end too soon, we could break him or he’s not ready to do himself justice so we need to give him a bit of patience like we’ve done with Eoin Toal, like we’ve done with Jon Bodvarsson when he first came,