Bolton Wanderers linked with loan move for Auxerre and Canada striker Theo Bair

Wanderers are reportedly in talks with Canadian striker Theo Bair about a season-long loan move. The pacy Auxerre forward spent last season at Lausanne in Switzerland, scoring 10 goals in 31 games, but the club did not pick up the option of signing him for five million euros. Bair, who has been capped seven times by his country, had one full season in the French top division and spent time in the Scottish Premiership with St Johnstone and Motherwell. His year at Fir Park was profitable, with 15 goals in his 41 games in all competitions. The Ottawa-born striker turns 27 next month and is looking for a permanent move away from Auxerre, where he has two years left to run on his contract. A loan move to Bolton is likely to include the option of a permanent move at the end of it. Steven Schumacher said on Friday that he hoped to bring in at least one more new player to the club’s training camp in Slovakia – with the focus said to be on striker and wingers. "Centre-forwards and a couple of more wide players are definitely the priority, but there'll be other positions as well that we'll strengthen, because we need to go into the Championship with as strong a squad as possible,” he told us. “We know that we needed to make the squad stronger. "We still need to make the squad more capable of being able to handle the Championship. "First of all, we've signed five good players who are going to add and contribute to the group, but we're still a long way short of what the squad will probably look like going into the start of the season. "But like we said all along, it's not going to be a pre-season that we need to panic either. "We expect things to happen later in the window because of the World Cup and how the Premier League teams are going to operate and how that all sort of filters down. "So, we might have to be a little bit patient, but we're confident that we'll get a team that can go and compete at this level.”