The Wigan Athletic Herald
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Too dear: Wigan Athletic walk away from Jack Taylor
$9.1M was the most the club would pay and Ipswich Town were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Wigan Athletic make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Wigan Athletic have 4 straight wins of it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 9 signed and 11 gone
That is the business done at Wigan Athletic until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Fraser Murray runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
Business is business: Joe Adams goes
Exeter City paid $1.4M and Wigan Athletic took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Joe Taylor in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wigan Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
James Wright gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. James Wright has just signed for Wigan Athletic, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Door shut on Kadir Barría
Wigan Athletic asked and Botafogo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market7 Sep 2026
Lokeren watching Joe Whitworth
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Wigan Athletic have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Match Christian Saydee sends Wigan Athletic past Barnsley
- Squad A row about effort at Wigan Athletic
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Christian Saydee at his very best