The Wigan Athletic Herald
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Wigan Athletic
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Ephron Mason-Clark
Wigan Athletic asked and Coventry City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Wigan Athletic
Lautaro Taboada was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market17 Aug 2026
Notts County watching Tyrese Francois
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Wigan Athletic promote Adam Turner from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adam Turner has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jason Hunter steps up from the Wigan Athletic academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jason Hunter has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines James Knott for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Wigan Athletic will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Fraser Murray runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Myles Peart-Harris needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Wigan Athletic know which stage they are at.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Wigan Athletic and Myles Peart-Harris
- Transfer targets A loan move for Trofim Melnichenko is in the works
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Wigan Athletic