The Wigan Athletic Herald
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Wigan Athletic rebuffed over Yael Trepy
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cagliari have kept their man, and Wigan Athletic go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Finley Burns stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Finley Burns and Wigan Athletic agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
James Carragher 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Wigan Athletic ask about Calvin Ramsay
A loan enquiry to Liverpool: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Joseph Hungbo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Finley Burns's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
Wigan Athletic and Jack Hunt are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Wigan Athletic give Morgan Fox the armband
A decision that decides nothing on the pitch and everything in the room. The manager has said, without saying it, whose voice he wants heard when his own is not there.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Cole Simms knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Cole Simms trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market Matthew Smith leaves for nothing
- Market Harry McHugh leaves for nothing