WIGAN ATHLETIC: Live transfer deadline day blog!

Saying all of the right things!

Worth remembering clubs can only field a maximum of five loan players in their matchday squads...currently Latics have:

Miguel Azeez

Ashley Fletcher

Martin Kelly

Omar Rekik

Christ Tiehi

Stephen Humphrys confirms there will be no return to Wigan this month from his loan spell at Hearts

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Can play anywhere across the defence and in midfield...three for the price of one!

We are up and running on deadline day...with 10 hours to go!

File in the ‘unlikely’ category...

Reports in Scotland say Hibernian are catagorically not interested in selling Josh Campbell and Kevin Nisbet, after other reports north of the border had linked them with Latics. Wigan Today sources were told on Monday night reports of a bid for Nisbet were well wide of the mark. But this is deadline day...anything is possible...

May well be wishful think, but Manchester City - who have allowed Joao Cancelo to join Bayern Munich - are being linked with a move for Fulham left-back Antonee Robinson. Well worth bearing in mind Latics hold a sell-on following the defender’s sale in 2020 of 20 per cent over £2million. Given a fee in the region of £35million has been mooted, that’s a looooooooooooooooot of money. One to keep an eye on.

Hibernian are reportedly after midfielder Jonny Williams from Swindon. Are they signing cover for a possible midfield departure? We shall see...

Interesting that most of them are midfielders - seemingly Latics’ strongest department, in terms of numbers. Shaun Maloney also admitted in his first media conference on Saturday his most pressing area for recruitment would be defence and attack.