West Ham have today had a bid of £4 million for Pascal Chimbonda knocked back by Latics. The amount is a significant step towards the £6m that the club have said they want for the player but does not seem to have shook the resolve of either chairman or manager. It’s not clear whether West […]
Maurice Lindsay’s role at the club is yet again up for questioning. He’s managed to keep a low profile since joining the board but those allegedly ‘in the know’ are telling us that he’s about to oversee a cull of the admin staff at Latics. First in line seems to have been commercial manager, John […]
What do you read into being told that the manager won’t sign his contract until his assistant is sorted out? It is fair enough I suppose, in many other clubs Jewell would be sorting Hutchings’ contract out himself and there’d be little risk. Still there’s a chance he won’t sign and if he doesn’t then […]
Today is D-day for the happy go lucky, glove wearing Frenchman, Pascal Chimbonda. He’s due back from his prolonged World Cup break, expecting talks with the manager and Spurs are about to make yet another bid for the player. Listening to his agent, it’s expected that the next bid will be around the £3.5 million […]
Which is the most disappointing? That England yet again fell in glorious defeat or that in doing so they failed to show any of the style that was expected nearly as much as the medals? The country was a sea of shocked faces come 7.30 but having just watched a penalty shoot out did we […]
The club’s silence on Jason Roberts has finally been broken, perhaps unsurprisingly, by the chairman, and even less surprisingly in a way that basically says sod him. Desperate to prove that there’s no man (except him perhaps) bigger than the club, Mr. Whelan has pointed out that it’s he and not the player who decides […]
It’s time to welcome our first signing of the summer. One that might stem the flow of people ready to tell us that Latics will never sign anyone, but will just as quickly dredge up the old ‘no ambition’ versus ‘Jewell’s never done us wrong’ arguments. One thing we won’t hear about this signing is […]
Wow, two signings in two days. Forgive me if you think I’m getting over excited but keeping Leighton Baines on for another three years is, especially in these times of ‘mass exodus’, a real boost, just as long as there are no clauses or gentleman’s agreements to cause problems further down the line that is. […]
According to Birmingham chairman David Sullivan that pleasure falls to one and all at Wigan Athletic. In a ‘Sir! Sir! Sir! They’re looking at my dinner funny sir!’ moment worthy of Walter softie Chris Hutchings’ comments about Emile Heskey last week are being described as an illegal approach. I suppose there’s a chance that Heskey […]
The latest blow in what will be recorded in Latics’ history as the “Great battle of gloves in April” has been struck. Not surprisingly it’s come from the player’s (well his agent’s) corner, with that bastion of loyalty Henri Camara being linked with a move to Portsmouth. Not only that he’s had the cheek to […]