{"id":672363,"date":"2026-07-03T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672363\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:55:17","slug":"akeel-higgins-west-brom-forward-signs-for-wigan-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672363\/","title":{"rendered":"Akeel Higgins: West Brom forward signs for Wigan Athletic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan Athletic have signed forward Akeel Higgins from West Bromwich Albion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old joins the Latics after making one first-team appearance for the Baggies, in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Higgins, who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder, spent last season on loan at Exeter City in League One, scoring twice in 31 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played under current Wigan manager Gary Caldwell at Exeter, and has signed a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Akeel &#8211; when I first brought him to Exeter &#8211; was amazing, and he had a huge impact on the team. I believe Akeel has a huge future and has massive potential if he works hard,&#8221; Caldwell <a href=\"https:\/\/wiganathletic.com\/news\/2026\/july\/03\/latics-sign-akeel-higgins-\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Wigan Athletic website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Athletic have signed forward Akeel Higgins from West Bromwich Albion. The 20-year-old joins the Latics after making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672363","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\/672363","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=672363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}