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Wanderers plan to have most of their summer recruitment completed by the time they travel to a training camp in Portugal on June 19.
Ian Evatt hopes to have a few new faces on the plane as he takes the squad to the Algarve for the start of their pre-season preparations.
It will be an early start for the team, who play their final game against Fleetwood Town on Saturday lunchtime knowing they have just 47 days before fitness testing begins once again at Lostock.
Evatt is targeting quality over quantity in the transfer market and says he can be selective in the coming weeks, with the majority of this season’s squad already signed up.
“I think we are at a stage now where we are pretty happy with what we’ve got,” he said. “We know where we need to improve.
“We have highlighted those areas and there have been conversations taking place as to how we make those positions better but it really is cherry picking now.
“We are getting to the stage where we can really be picky as to who we bring in and in what positions because we feel like generally the squad is in a good place.”
Evatt has undertaken a few different rebuilds on the Wanderers squad in the last two years, first guiding the club to promotion and then to a top-half finish in League One this time around.
The Bolton boss is pleased with his recruitment record, having taken control alongside technical performance director Chris Markham in January 2021.
He will have extra work this summer, with a raft of exit trial games planned to see some of the young talents being released by top Premier League clubs could be drafted into the new B Team system.
At first team level the turnover is likely to be much lower and Evatt believes Wanderers fans will back his decision making after a few successful windows on the spin.
“We know where we need players and we know how many of those players are and we’ve already had the discussions,” he said.
“It is all systems go, really. Now it’s about getting the right ones in and I think the last two Januarys we have proven we can get the right ones in, regardless of their historical records.
“It seems every time we sign a striker, everyone looks at their goalscoring record and says they can’t hit a barn door, and then all of a sudden they start scoring for us!
“We mustn’t just judge a book by its cover, we spend a lot of time and a do a lot of due diligence on recruiting players.
“There is always an element of risk but we try and limit that risk as best we can. Long may that continue and we hope there will be some exciting work happening during the summer.”
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