10 Former Players Bolton Wanderers Could Do With Now

2. Gary Cahill

Seven years ago, Gary Cahill was deemed surplus to requirements at Villa Park and was flogged to Bolton Wanderers midway through the 07/08 season. With each passing weekend, the 28 year old centre-half is looking more and more likely to add a league winners€™ medal to his collection of Champions League, FA Cup and Europa League medals since completing a move to Chelsea in January 2012. He has formed a rock-solid partnership with John Terry at the heart of the defence, and is one of the first names on the team-sheet for the international side - and he has Bolton Wanderers to thank for giving him his chance. Having slipped down the pecking order at Villa Park, then-Bolton boss Gary Megson took a chance on the 23 year old in January 2008, and signed up on a three-year deal. Over the course of the following five seasons, Cahill played 147 times for the Trotters and scored 15 goals before departing midway through the 11/12 season. It seemed to paint a fitting picture of how Cahill had outgrown the club, as he lifted the Champions League trophy during the same month as his former club sank into the second tier of English football. The 28 year old is one of the most formidable centre-halves in the country and would walk into nigh-on any team in the land - it may be but a pipedream, but Bolton would have him back in an instant.