We are probably the smallest club to ever compete in the Premier League (13000 home fans for a game against Manchester United, 11000 season ticket holders paying 250quid???) and when we got here , 99% of us thought we would do what loads of others have done and stick around for a year before going down.

Our aim has always been and as far as I can see always will be staying up. The anti Whelan brigade saying he should go are living in a dream world because without him, or someone else like him anyway, putting money in every year we would be in a similar position to Leeds or Southampton…but with an average gate of about 8000.

We can’t build something long term in the Premier League because we can’t afford to. We can’t offer the likes of Palacios and Valencia and Cattermole what they can get elsewhere, and to be honest if by doing so it puts the future of the club at risk then I’d rather we didn’t.

Its ok saying we have all this money to spend…I’m afraid we don’t. The sales of the players over the past 6 months should have made serious in roads into the 60 million debt we have but then we have to keep reinvesting in the squad so its catch 22. Forget the Sky money in terms of a profit because its goes straight against the 38 million wage bill we are carrying.

Simple question is; how long can a club go on losing money every year??

To me it looks like the board, or Whelan alone, has sat down and looked at things and thought we have to change the way we are operating because long term it’s not sustainable and to my mind that’s the reason Steve Bruce left. We now have a young manager who appears to want to be here long term, hopefully Whelan will stick with him so let’s give him time to build something.

Competely agree, but being realistic what odds do we have? Is Whelan going to give Martinez funds, you have more chance of getting blood out of a stone.
Does this not remind you of West Brom last year, losing but trying to play football all that counts.
I respect Martinez and want him to be the best thing to ever happen to the club but I just think we need a manager with experience. Martinez is similar in many ways to Paul Ince was at Blackburn, great in the lower leagues before arriving but shown not to have what it takes at premiership level. Having said that, with Whelan as the chairman, Alex Ferguson would struggle.
Wish we could get shut of this mon before its too late, the selfish old git is quite obviously milking us dry to ensure any money he has spent on us is returned.

AND THE SUPPORTERS DESERVE ONE

i sent the club an email after whelans interview in the daily telegraph last week,now in the past the club has always replied but not a peep out of them for this one,so ive just sent this again,and i know for a fact that people at the club read this and other latics forums.

Call this a knee jerk reaction if you like,but i sent you an email earlier this week after the chairmans comments in the daily telegraph where he claimed that no wigan fans complained about selling players,well you either chose not to pass it on or he chose not to reply,well i ask you again mid way through a disgraceful display at bloomfield road,

who are the fans he has had no complaints from ?

mr whelan is not shy when he spouts his ego ridden opinions in as many media forums as seems humanly possible, why cant he answer a simple question from a long standing supporter who is totally disillusioned at the goings on at this moment in time,i would add another question

what are mr. whelans motives and intentions at wigan athletic ?

i am sure most wigan athletic fans,both those that ‘don’t’ complain and those like myself that do would love to here mr whelans forthright opinions on this highly emotive subject.

regards

Honestly, when you consider different aspects of the club, how things are going, and this, that, and the other, the club is in a hell of a mess at the moment. And can I just say, I’m normally fairly calm and relaxed if we get beat. I don’t tend to go home and sulk and ‘stew’ about it. But yesterday, I did. It was more the manner in which we capitulated that stunned me. Dare I say that, had Scholes early chance gone in, and that Fletcher one, we may have got done 6 or 7 nil? We just collapse. Big, big problems.

For the sake of briefness, I’ll put the points in a ‘bullet-point’ style.

1. Team performances. We are being beaten ease. People will say “But it was 0-0 for an hour yesterday”. Yes, but that means we shipped FIVE goals in 30 minutes! That’s awful. United were well below par, and yet they still won with such ease, as we fell apart.

2.Disjointed. The team looks all over the place. It’s the back 4 for me that is not good enough. Figueroa looks a shadow of his former self, and the other 3, Melchiot included, don’t seem good enough to me.

3. Selling all the best players. My oh my……isn’t it showing? How good would our midfield have been, if we’d had a pairing of Palacios and Cattermole? I am absolutely fed up of the fact that as soon as a player gets a bit of interest from other clubs, he’s on his way soon after. It’s going to see us relegated.

6. Cheap Option Replacements. I’m absolutely fed up of us bringing in these players that either nobody has heard of, or who come from the Championship. We’ve had all this money, for Valencia, etc, and have done crap-all with it. For Pete’s sake, if we don’t bring some serious quality in, we’ll be down by Christmas, at this rate. There’s only a week or so left in the transfer window. I can’t see us making any great strides in that time, can you?

7. Cheap Option Coaching Staff. It’s nice and sentimental that we have Martinez, Jones, and Barrow, at the club. But they’ve got sod all top flight experience. I’ve heard others touch on this, and I think they have a point. We got Barrow from Altrincham! Would any other Premiership club have recruited from so far down the ladder? No.

8. Rent-A-Quote-Whelan. The guy has really p**sed me off. He’s always got something to say in a paper, and his recent comments, which apparently suggest thet we fans are actually PLEASED to see players leave, really are a joke. (I don’t know what fans he’s been talking to, do you?) And it’s said he says that Wigan’s still a rugby town, in his new book. The sooner this guy sells up and does one, the better. He may have saved us in the past, he may have got us to where we are, but he’s obviously lost the plot, now. I’ve heard people scoff at suggestions that he should “sell to the first Arab interested”, and I myself, had doubts. But the fact is, we are going to be left behind. Not by clubs like City, who are now LIGHT YEARS away from us, etc, but by clubs such as Stoke and possibly others like Hull. I can’t believe how our club is being run. It is so frustrating. Sell our best players, and replace them with untried shyte. I think that’s the top and bottom of it. No point pussy footing around.

The sooner Whelan f**ks off, the better.