Former Manchester City striker Georgios Samaras, now with Celtic, has also been mentioned in dispatches.
PAOK forward Dimitris Salpingidis has been strongly linked with a free transfer switch to the DW, although Greece’s against-the-odds progression to the knockout stages of the Euros may keep that on hold for a few days.
Latics were again linked with Tottenham’s out-of-favour winger Giovanni Dos Santos over the weekend, with some sources claiming a deal had already been done for the Mexico international.
Morocco international midfielder Nordin Amrabat is another name to have featured heavily in the gossip columns, with some reports suggesting his representatives have been over to Wigan to discuss a move.