{"id":179204,"date":"2025-06-12T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179204\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:03:11","slug":"xavier-simons-bolton-wanderers-sign-midfielder-from-hull-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179204\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Simons: Bolton Wanderers sign midfielder from Hull City"},"content":{"rendered":"

League One club Bolton Wanderers have signed midfielder Xavier Simons on a four-year deal from Championship side Hull City for an undisclosed fee.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 22-year-old joined the Tigers, initially on loan, from Chelsea in September 2022 and made the move permanent the following year.<\/p>\n

England Under-20 international Simons made 38 Tigers appearances and scored two goals during his time on Humberside.<\/p>\n

“I’m made up to be joining Bolton Wanderers – it’s a proper football club with a big history and fantastic support,” he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

During his time at Hull, Simons also spent time on loan at Fleetwood Town and Wycombe Wanderers.<\/p>\n

“He’ll bring real energy and a competitive edge to our midfield options,” said Wanderers boss Steven Schumacher.<\/p>\n

“He’s got good legs and isn’t afraid to put a tackle in and has a great passing ability \u2013 an all-round midfielder.<\/p>\n

“His grounding at Chelsea means he’s technically sound and he knows what this division is about from his time at Wycombe, on top of his Championship experience with Hull.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League One club Bolton Wanderers have signed midfielder Xavier Simons on a four-year deal from Championship side Hull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-179204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114672186379580432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}