IAN Evatt wants four new signings by the close of the January window – but has warned Wanderers fans they may have to wait!

Having already landed Declan John on loan from Swansea and brought in ex-Sheffield Wednesday man Kieran Lee in on an 18-month deal, the Bolton boss has already added quality to his ranks in January.

But he predicts another hat-trick of loan deals will be on the cards in the following fortnight plus another attacking signing that could really turn heads.

“Ideally I would want another four,” he told The Bolton News. “And that is realistic, I think. How quickly they will happen I am not so sure, but I do think we’ll be doing business right up to the end of the window.

“We are monitoring situations. Some are younger players who we think are talented and we believe can help us, some are more experienced – and they are the ones we will probably have to wait for. They might have aspirations of moving higher up, or the club are waiting for another player to become available before releasing the one we want.

“We might have to be patient. But I want four more in the building – two younger ones, two more experienced ones.

“I’d expect them to be loans – well, possibly one of them won’t be, and if I pull that one off then I will be really pleased with myself. We won’t know until the last minute on that one.”

To keep within the EFL’s squad quota rules on over-21s, Evatt may need to move players out before deadline day on Monday, February 1.

But he insists that Wanderers have financial scope to do deals without having to push players through the exit door.

“This is where people carry the myth around about Bolton Wanderers and see that we have Eoin Doyle and one or two others and think we must be over-spending,” he said. “We have still got room in our salary cap.

“We are well below £1.5m so we have plenty of room to do business and make room.

“Whatever happens in this window will be quick fixes, deals until the end of the season. Kieran Lee was a slight exception, a bit of quality we could steal because he shouldn’t be available to a League Two club.

“In terms of the others, I think they will be four or five month deals to get us through to the end of the season, so there is plenty of room in the cap.

“It is more about getting the right ones in.”