How Brighton feel about Amario Cozier-Duberry’s Bolton Wanderers future - Steven Schumacher will love it | OneFootball

Amario Cozier-Duberry has been the League One player of the season so far, and it could be that he's set to stay the season with Bolton.

Winger Amario Cozier-Duberry has been one of the star turns in League One this season, and it seems that he's set to stay the entire season with Bolton Wanderers in what will offer a huge boost to the Trotters.

In third place in the League One table and just two points from the summit, it's been a strong start to the 2025-26 season for Bolton Wanderers. They've won their last three consecutive games going into the international weekend, and can do so on a real high following a 4-0 thrashing of Port Vale last weekend.

Winger Amario Cozier-Duberry scored two of Bolton's goals in that win as well as providing two assists, continuing a rich vein of form which has seen him shine for them so far this season, and now manager Steven Schumacher will have reason to smile with reports that Cozier-Duberry's parent club, Brighton & Hove Albion, seem set to allow this prodigious young talent to stay with his club for the duration of the season.

Reports confirm that Brighton have no plans to recall winger Amario Cozier-Duberry from Bolton in January

Posting to the social media site X, Sky Sports news editor Elliott Cook has reported that, although he understands that there is a break clause in the loan agreement between Brighton and Bolton which would allow for it, parent club Brighton & Hove Albion have no plans to recall Amario Cozier-Duberry to send him to a Championship club.

He reports that Brighton, who signed the player from Arsenal in 2024, are happy for him to stay at Bolton for the remainder of this season, and that they are "impressed with his progress." Such news will be music to the ears of Steven Schumacher, for whom Cozier-Duberry has been such an outstanding performer so far this season.

Cozier-Duberry, now a firm favourite with the Trotters faithful and, quite arguably, League One's single best player for good measure, had been linked with a move to Sheffield United in January.

Interest from a litany of other Championship clubs would only seem natural, too, although Brighton are evidently happy with keeping the winger exactly where he is right now, perhaps more encouraged by the fact that he struggled on loan in the second-tier with Blackburn Rovers last time out.

Brighton's Cozier-Duberry stance over Cozier-Duberry reflects extremely positively on Bolton Wanderers

On top of his brace against Port Vale, Amario Cozier-Duberry had already been invaluable to Bolton Wanderers in October alone, netting stoppage-time winners in each of their two previous matches, against Huddersfield Town and Cardiff City. These goals alone have proved invaluable in a division which, with just three points separating the top seven clubs, could be set to go to the wire this season.

With six goals and six assists already this season, Cozier-Duberry has been tearing up this division, with his performance against Port Vale earning 10/10 ratings. It has been abundantly evident throughout the early stages of this season that this is an extremely talented prospect.

But for an EFL club taking a Premier League player on loan, there is always a degree of concern that such excellent form could persuade the parent club to take them back. It's fairly standard for there to be break clauses in season-long loans so that either party can terminate the loan early, but Brighton's reported contentment with the progress that he's making at The Toughsheet Community Stadium is now rendering that broadly irrelevant.

And this is good news for Bolton Wanderers in more ways than one. Such reports will only enhance their reputation as a club that it's beneficial to send a player to, and this can only increase their chances of getting better prospects through on loan, should they want them, in the future. Such a positive reflection of the club isn't only about the talents of this one particular player.

It has been clear all season that Amario Cozier-Duberry is an exceptional talent, and his loan is clearly working exactly as both Brighton & Hove Albion and Bolton Wanderers had hoped. If he is to stay the remainder of this season, he has the talent to fire Bolton all the way back to the Championship.