Bolton Wanderers confirmed the signing of Jay Spearing on a season-long loan deal from Liverpool on 31 August, 2012.
The 23-year-old put pen-to-paper at the Reebok after returning from Liverpool’s opening Europa League tie against FC Gomel, playing the full 90 minutes in Belarus.
The midfielder has spent his whole career at his home-grown club Liverpool, apart from a brief spell at Championship club Leicester City in 2009 where he made 11 appearances scoring his only senior career goal against Watford.
Spearing has made 30 Premier League appearances for the Reds and was included in England Under-21s' provisional 40-man-squad for the 2011 Summer Under-21 European Championship.