Exclusive: Bolton Wanderers in advanced talks to sign Hull City defender
Bolton Wanderers are in advanced talks to sign Hull City defender Brandon Fleming on loan, Football Insider understands.
Bolton boss Keith Hill has been scouring the transfer market for a new left-back and is pushing hard to sign the highly-rated 20-year-old.
A source at Hull has told Football Insider that the Championship side feel they have enough cover at left-back in order to allow Fleming to join League One’s Bolton and continue his development with regular first-team football.
Hull City boss Grant McCann has left-backs Callum Elder and Eric Lichaj at his disposal so he’s happy to let Fleming go out on loan, despite the 20-year-old managing to make seven appearances this season.
Only four of Fleming’s seven outings have come in the Championship, with his last league appearance being the 3-0 loss to Huddersfield Town in October.
The English defender managed to make a total of six appearances last season after establishing himself as a regular member of the first-team squad under Nigel Adkins.
Fleming has come through the ranks at Hull and he made his first-team debut in 2017 in the EFL Cup against Doncaster Rovers.
The loan to Bolton will be the second loan stint for the defender as he previously spent a month at Gainsborough Trinity in March 2018.
The Tigers are currently 11th in the Championship and are three points off the play-off places ahead of facing Derby County on Saturday.
In other Hull City news, Football Insider can reveal that a fellow Championship side are plotting a £15million bid to sign one of the Tigers’ prize assets in the January transfer window.