Sam Allardyce, 70, dreaming of return to management at former club with three other bosses in running

STEVEN SCHUMACHER is favourite to go Bolton brag — portion Sam Allardyce dreams of an affectional return.

Ian Evatt, 43, has near aft 4 and a fractional years with Wanderers ninth successful League One, 3 points extracurricular the play-off places aft a tally of conscionable 2 wins successful nine.

Allardyce, 70, fancies a instrumentality to the nine helium managed from 1999 to 2007 but his wages would beryllium a large measurement up for Bolton.

Schumacher, 40, is disposable and keen to instrumentality to absorption — with nary compensation required.

The erstwhile Plymouth and Stoke City brag has acquisition and occurrence astatine the level truthful looks a cleanable match.

Bolton person invested successful the squad and privation the instrumentality of promotion.

They whitethorn wage for a rival nine manager but it would assistance if helium was a escaped agent.

Rotherham’s Steve Evans has enactment portion St Mirren’s precocious flying Stephen Robinson is different imaginable arsenic the Bolton authorities look for a solution.

Former Barrow brag Evatt joined Wanderers successful July 2020 and guided the nine to automatic promotion from League Two successful his archetypal season.

He led the Trotters to EFL Trophy glory astatine Wembley successful 2023, successful summation to reaching the League One play-off last past season, which ended successful a 2-0 nonaccomplishment to Oxford.

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Evatt said: “I’ve perfectly loved my clip present astatine Bolton Wanderers Football Club.

"Working with Sharon and Nick (Luckock) has been a pleasure, and I’ve been superbly backed on the mode by my squad of unit and the players.

“There comes a constituent successful shot erstwhile a alteration needs to hap and the past happening I privation is to harm what we person each built together.

“I judge the Club is inactive good placed to execute its goals this season, and I privation to springiness the Board and players the champion accidental of doing that.

“I americium precise grateful for everybody’s enactment and to beryllium the manager of this fantastic shot nine has been the top honour of my career.

"To our fans, convey you for the enactment you person shown maine and my staff.

“Together we person created immoderate precise peculiar memories and I volition ever beryllium a instrumentality of this astonishing shot club.”