Wigan are a step nearer to relegation from the Championship after they have been deducted three factors for once more failing to pay their gamers.
The Latics at the moment are eight factors adrift of security on the foot of the desk after being sanctioned by the EFL for not delivering March’s wage to their squad.
It’s the fourth occasion of not paying their squad within the final 9 months, having additionally carried out it in June, July and October of final 12 months and breaches an settlement they’d with the governing physique in January, the place they accepted a suspended penalty.
The league has additionally levied new prices on the membership and its proprietor.
The penalty leaves the Latics looking at an instantaneous return to League One, from which they gained promotion final season.
Bahraini businessman Abdulrahman Al-Jasmi fronted a takeover of Wigan in 2021 after they’d gone into administration in the summertime of 2020.
