WANDERERS have told Wycombe exactly what it will take to sign Aaron Morley on a permanent deal in January.

Ian Evatt has confirmed that the midfielder will be returning to the Toughsheet Stadium next month unless the Chairboys meet their “significant” valuation.

Morley has been a big hit on loan with the surprise high-flyers and is yet to be on the losing side for them in the league this season.

But he has two years left to run on his contract and will be brought back to the North West on January 1 unless a deal can be thrashed out.

Evatt spoke to Wycombe boss Matt Bloomfield after Friday night’s 0-0 draw at Adams Park to outline his position, and the Bolton manager feels his club are now in a strong position.

“I was really clear with what our stance is,” he told The Bolton News. “Aaron is our player and we are pleased has got what he needed to out of the loan.

“If they want to keep him, they need to make us a really significant offer. From our perspective, he just won’t stay there on loan. We will recall him and he will be part of our team and our squad unless they offer us an offer we think meets his valuation. Then, we can look at other things.

“For me, it is really clear that if they want to keep Aaron, a bit like we do - and we have to negotiate and pay for players’ quality. Aaron has been fantastic for them. I have told them our valuation and now it is down to them to either meet it or not.”

Evatt has no qualms about bringing the in-form midfielder back into his own squad and potentially benefiting from the progress he has made with regular football at Wycombe.

“We must remember that it’s been a six-month loan, Aaron hasn’t completely changed,” he said. “Aaron is Aaron. We know all about him, what he can do and what he needed to improve on. He has done great there and that is exactly what we wanted. Some of the things he needed to improve on, in my opinion, he has done.

“We had a conversation with them and they saw the same things I did.

“He is playing with confidence and that was important, that he found confidence again. But as we know, it is a completely different pressure playing for Wycombe than Bolton Wanderers. The expectation is completely different, the amount of fans we have, and pressures of the big games.

“Consistently, it is different, so it is important that, if and when we do recall him, we don’t expect miracles or that he is this completely different and new player.

“We just need him to play with confidence and do the things that he can do, which we know are very good when he is playing at the top of his game.”

Morley has excelled in a team which exhibits a very different style to Bolton but his stats over the last few months suggest that his defensive game has improved from the previous season.

Rochdale would stand to take a percentage of any sell-on fee as part of the deal which brought him to Wanderers in January 2022 for a deal with around £100,000.