A deal has been agreed in principle for the sale of Wigan Athletic, according to the current ownership group.
The deal will require EFL approval and no details of the prospective buyer were given in a brief statement posted on the club’s website on Sunday evening.
Shaun Maloney was pleased with the way his Wigan players dealt with another “hard…difficult” week by ending their Sky Bet Championship campaign with a 0-0 draw against Rotherham.
With the Millers already safe, there was always going to be an end-of-season feel to this dead rubber.
Wigan players have been given a day off training after another delay in paying wages.
Latics’ relegation from the Sky Bet Championship was confirmed last month and they sit bottom of the table heading into the final game of the season at home to Rotherham on Monday.
West Brom closed the gap to the Sky Bet Championship play-offs to four points with a 1-0 win over lowly Wigan at The Hawthorns.
Daryl Dike’s 27th-minute header – his third goal in two home games – was enough to extend their eight-match unbeaten home run in the Championship.
Wigan earned a 0-0 draw at promotion-chasing Blackburn in new manager Shaun Maloney’s first game in charge.
The closest they came to securing a victory that would have lifted them off the bottom of the Championship was debutant Martin Kelly’s disallowed second-half bundled effort.
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