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Nice words from the new boy

All those Martial arts/Martial law/Martial force headlines to go at...

HERE WE GO!

Bit more deadline-day reading as we wait for Latics to enter the fray...no rush...

Latics’ third kit...what do we think???

Latics will also be releasing their new third kit at around 4pm this afternoon...what colour will it be???

Time for some deadline-day reading courtesy of our 12th Man fans panel...

If this deadline day was a game, it would be a ‘real war of attrition’...a ‘tactical game of chess’...

And another one...

Shaun Maloney’s faith more than justified by Sam Tickle

Not deadline-day related but you’ll forgive us...

Also worth pointing out...and we’re not trying to sell him already...but another member of that U21 squad (Cole Palmer) has moved today for £40m.

This is the future of a self-sustainable Wigan Athletic right here, thanks to a fantastic Academy system.

Worth pointing out this England Under-21s side won the Euros this summer.

At that point, Sam Tickle had made one senior appearance (last game of last season). Some journey.

Tickle becomes the first Academy product to make an England Under-21s squad since Leighton Baines almost two decades ago.

Lee Cattermole was Latics’ last Under-21 international, back in 2009.