Latics secure Toney swoop

Wigan Athletic have completed the signing of Newcastle forward striker Ivan Toney on a season-long loan. 

 Latics boss Paul Cook has been chasing a frontman for most of the summer - and the need intensified last week when Omar Bogle was removed from the first-team squad and placed on the transfer list. “Ivan’s a player with a good track record at this level, having scored goals for a number of clubs in this league,” Cook.

 “He is young, a good athlete and fits the mould to come into the system I want to play, giving us further competition up front with Will Grigg and Nick Powell only recently returning to action.” The 21-year-old joined Newcastle from Northampton in 2015, although he has made only two appearances in a black-and-white shirt.

 He’s spent time out on loan at Barnsley, whom he helped win promotion from League One - behind Latics - via the play-offs in 2015/16. Last term, he scored seven goals in 26 appearances for Shrewsbury before joining Scunthorpe, for whom he scored seven goals in 17 matches. He’s expected to go straight into the squad for Saturday’s League One opener at MK Dons.


Latics secure Toney swoop