Bolton Wanderers manager Ian Evatt believes the luxury of Conor Bradley having been coached at Liverpool means playing comes naturally to him. The Bolton boss thinks the two clubs share the same philosophy on how to play football.
The 18-year-old has joined the League One side on loan for the season to gain valuable first-team experience while playing regularly. Liverpool signed Calvin Ramsay as back-up for Trent Alexander-Arnold, allowing Bradley to leave for the campaign.
Bradley featured for Jurgen Klopp's side five times last season as the Reds progressed in each cup competition to eventually win the FA Cup and League Cup.
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Evatt secured Bradley after Bolton already made him their key target in the January transfer window with Liverpool unwilling to let him leave at that point. The Northern Ireland international is now poised for a busy season in League One.
"He's an exciting young player, I've said that. We're really pleased we've got him, a lot of hard work's been done to make sure we do get him. We identified him in January as I said before and he showed glimpses of what he's capable of.
"The way Liverpool coach their players is the way that I want to coach our players and you can see with his understanding, the intensity of what he does, his work and the speed of what he does his work at is everything that's engrained in him in Liverpool. So when he comes here it just comes naturally to him so I'm delighted with him, but I'm delighted with them all.
"Because we have an identity and we understand what the requirements are, position-specific, we can go out there and find the best one suited to that role and Conor was certainly that."
Bradley made his debut for Bolton in the second half of their first pre-season friendly ahead of the new campaign against Longridge Town on Tuesday evening. Bolton secured a 9-0 win.
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