Bolton Wanderers and Huddersfield Town should be on red alert for Oxford United attacker | OneFootball

Bolton Wanderers and Huddersfield Town should line up moves for Oxford United attacker Tyler Goodrham in the January transfer window.

The January transfer window remains some way off but some clubs will surely have been put on red alert by news that Oxford United could be willing to allow Tyler Goodrham to leave on loan this winter.

Among those clubs that should be keen to bring in the versatile attacker for the second-half of the campaign would be League One promotion chasers Bolton Wanderers and Huddersfield Town.

According to reliable transfer journalist Pete O’Rourke, Oxford are set to make Goodrham available for a loan move in January, and a number of clubs are keen on signing him after he has fallen out of favour at the Kassam Stadium, under the management of Gary Rowett.

Oxford are playing quite a functional style of football to try and steer themselves clear o the bottom three and the relegation places in the Championship, perhaps not suited to an inexperienced and exciting attacker such as Goodrham.

A move back down to League One to rebuild his reputation as one of the more exciting young attackers in the EFL would be beneficial for him, and he would be a good signing for both Bolton and Huddersfield, who are desperate for a player of his ilk.

Steven Schumacher will want to bolster wide options at Bolton

In the summer, Steven Schumacher was granted the opportunity oversee a major squad overhaul at the Toughsheet Community Stadium and that saw plenty of new signings and a raft of departures.

It also saw Schumacher and new recruitment staff Fergal Harkin and Jimmy Dickinson transform the squad into one that would play with wingers and a back four, away from playing almost exclusively a back three system for the last half a decade or so.

Amario Cozier-Duberry has been the gem in League One this season following his arrival on loan from Brighton and Hove Albion, whilst other wingers signed included Ibrahim Cissoko, Thierry Gale and Charlie Warren.

However, the late summer departures of Carlos Mendes Gomes and Szabolcs Schon on loan to Exeter City and ETO respectively has seen that Wanderers are potentially light in those areas once again, with Warren not necessarily hitting the requisite level, Cissoko putting in underwhelming performances and Gale becoming frustratingly injury prone, leaving full-back Jordi Osei-Tutu playing out of position quite often on the left-wing.

The underwhelming performances of John McAtee and Joel Randall in the so-called ‘number ten’ position also leave open the door for a versatile attacker to steal that shirt, too.

Goodrham ticks those boxes and the 22-year-old attacker would appear to be an ideal fit for the aggressive and high intensity style of football implemented by Schumacher, with the Whites seeking to propel themselves back into the second-tier.

Lee Grant needs width and incision at Huddersfield

Huddersfield Town also underwent major surgery over the summer with rookie boss Lee Grant handed the keys to one of the stronger squads and biggest budgets in the division.

Having been a coach under Kieran McKenna at Ipswich Town, trying to play a fluid 4-2-3-1 has been the aim for Grant throughout the campaign – but it does appear clear that their squad is just not suited to that system.

Aside from the sheer amount of centre-backs and strikers indicating that a 3-5-2 would make sense, Huddersfield also lack wide options and, generally, pace in attack.

Goodrham would be an ideal solution to that issue, with the former Reading academy player capable of playing in a variety of positions, but a narrow winger would seemingly be the ideal profile of player for a Grant-coached side, and Goodrham falls very much into that category.

The pressure is on the former Manchester United goalkeeper but, regardless of whether or not Kevin Nagle sticks with him at the John Smith’s Stadium, Goodrham remains the profile of player that this Town squad is crying out for.