Several League One clubs are considering legal action against the EFL over insufficient punishments for Bolton Wanderers for registering players late at the start of the season.



The Athletic can also reveal that the administrators who helped save Bolton from following Bury out of the English Football League this summer are still owed more than £1 million in fees, prompting concerns about the new owners’ finances.



Months of uncertainty about Bolton’s future seemed to come to end on August 28, when the League One club announced it had been taken over by Football Ventures (Whites) Limited. It was the same day that Bury became the first club to be expelled from the league since 1992.



Burdened by huge debts and repeatedly threatened with winding-up petitions, the Greater Manchester side were relegated to the third tier last season, a fate which prompted then-owner Ken Anderson to place the club in administration.



David Rubin and...