, Sunderland make fresh bid for Wigan Athletic striker- Confident of striking deal

Sunderland make fresh bid for Wigan Athletic striker- Confident of striking deal

Sunderland have made a new bid for Wigan Athletic striker Will Grigg, according to the Northern Echo.

The Black Cats are confident they can persuade the Northern Ireland international to make the step down from the Championship to League One but saw their first bid of around £250,000 rejected by the Latics.

Grigg, who is 27 years-old, has played 17 times in all competition for Paul Cook’s side this season, scoring four times.

He has been one of the most prolific strikers in the third tier over recent times, hence why Sunderland are so keen to land him this month to help in their promotion charge.

Grigg scored 28 goals in the 2015/16 season for Wigan to fire them to the League One title. He couldn’t prevent them from relegation from the Championship in the following campaign but fired another 26 goals in all competitions last season to get the North-West side the title again and back into the second tier.

, Sunderland make fresh bid for Wigan Athletic striker- Confident of striking deal
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The Solihull-born striker started his career at Walsall and he spent five years there before earning a move to Brentford in 2013. Grigg spent a single campaign with the London side and had a loan spell at MK Dons, where he scored 22 goals, before joining Wigan in 2015 for around £1 million.

Signing Grigg would be a huge statement of intent by Sunderland and would put them firmly in the automatic promotion race in League One. It will be interesting to see if Wigan are open to selling him this month.

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