The Wigan Athletic Herald
Match2 Sep 2028
Wigan Athletic taken apart
0‑3 to Shrewsbury Town, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market4 Sep 2028
Ryan Trevitt hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wigan Athletic can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A brace, and Jamie McDonnell takes the afternoon — 8.42
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jamie McDonnell provided it, and the 8.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Deadline passes with 26 signed and 16 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Wigan Athletic lose Fraser Murray
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets4 Sep 2028
Door shut on Alex Palmer
Wigan Athletic asked and Leicester 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.
Transfer targets4 Sep 2028
Deadline beats Wigan Athletic to Isaque Sousa Monte
The clock did what Cambridge United would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Market4 Sep 2028
Wigan Athletic promote Mark James from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mark James 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.
Market4 Sep 2028
James Cooper steps up from the Wigan Athletic academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. James Cooper 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.
In brief
- Market Christopher Phillips steps up from the Wigan Athletic academy
- Match Late, late show earns Wigan Athletic a point
- The dugout Baba Adeeko gets it from the manager