WANDERERS will be without Ricardo Santos for at least a fortnight after scans showed up a “complicated” tear in his calf.

The Bolton skipper has been advised to rest after discovering a small tear in his soleus, which has led to Ian Evatt bringing West Brom defender Caleb Taylor in on loan for the rest of the season.

There is better news for Bolton fans, however, as Will Forrester has returned to full training ahead of schedule and stands an outside chance of being involved against Barnsley.

Eoin Toal will also manage an Achillies injury and should keep his place in the team against the Tykes.

Explaining Santos’s injury, Evatt said: “It is not great, there is a slight tear in the muscle that sits behind your calf attaching the Achillies tendon. It is in a position which makes it a little bit more complicated than it ordinarily would be.

“If it was away from the tendon then we could probably take a risk with it. There are muscles around it that could have handled the strain.

“As you saw on Tuesday, he picked it up in the warm-up and thought he’d done something which didn’t prove to be the case. He ended up playing really well in the first half.

“But we would be taking a huge risk by playing him and then we could be missing him for a significant amount of time. We have taken the view that we will give him one or two weeks of rest and hopefully it settles fast and he will be back in.”

Toal completed 90 minutes against Blackpool but has been struggling with his Achillies for a few weeks, prompting checks this week.

“It wasn’t the tendinopathy that we thought it was,” Evatt explained. “But Eoin is hopeful that he can continue and we have tried to give him as much recovery time as we can.

“We won’t really know for sure until tomorrow, but we are hopeful that he will be OK.”

New signings Taylor and Aaron Collins will go straight into the squad for Saturday with Evatt expecting a different type of challenge from Barnsley than they offered in the play-offs last season.

“There is a lot more fluidity, rotation, there is more attacking threat,” he said. “Michael (Duff)’s team last season was extremely well organised and difficult to beat, and their back three alone over the summer fetched £11million. They have had to adapt a little bit and I think they have done. There are variations and variety in what they do now, and we have to communicate well in and out of possession to work that out.”