{"id":570478,"date":"2026-05-07T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570478\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:01:10","slug":"jason-kerr-wigan-athletic-captain-among-eight-to-leave-league-one-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570478\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kerr: Wigan Athletic captain among eight to leave League One club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan Athletic captain Jason Kerr will leave the League One side after almost five years with the Latics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old joined the club during the summer of 2021 and won the League One title during his first season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kerr has made 150 appearances for Wigan in all competitions, including 37 during the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He departs the club alongside Will Aimson, Toby Savin, Luke Robinson, Steven Sessegnon, Tyrese Francois, Matthew Corran and Jack Hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Joseph Hungbo, Baba Adeeko, Jonny Smith, Ronan Darcy and Maleace Asamoah have been made available for transfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darcy joined Wigan from Crawley in January 2025 but he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c62rrkx16zdo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned to the Red Devils on loan<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sessegnon had been transfer-listed last season but stayed with the Latics and made 15 appearances this season &#8211; however, his most recent appearance came in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Plymouth and Bolton defender Aimson leaves having made 98 appearances in all competitions after joining in summer 2024, while Hunt departs following the completion of the short-term deal he signed in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Athletic captain Jason Kerr will leave the League One side after almost five years with the Latics.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}