The transfer saga of Portsmouth’s Jamal Lowe looks to be coming to an end today as the winger is set to finalise a move to Championship outfit Wigan Athletic today, according to The Portsmouth News.
The move is understood to be worth around £2.5 million and will see Jamal Lowe reunited with former manager Paul Cook, who brought the winger to Portsmouth from the non-league back in 2017. The Portsmouth News has reported that Lowe has travelled north to the DW today in order to complete the move.
The exciting attacker joined from Hampton & Richmond and developed into a marquee figurehead in the Portsmouth side appearing 119 times, achieving promotion to League One with after scoring 2 vital goals away at Notts County which clinched Pompey the title.
Under Kenny Jackett in League One, Lowe continued his fantastic development in a Portsmouth shirt and became one of the most lethal players in the league and finished top scorer at Fratton Park with 17 goals in a season where they narrowly missed out on promotion to the Championship.
Despite this, Lowe looks set to be playing Championship football in a Wigan Athletic side this season, who will be looking to build on surviving in the league last year and avoid yo-yo-ing between the second and third-tier yet again. Although to many Portsmouth are regarded the bigger club out of the two, the prospect of a player – who only 3 years ago was playing in the non-league system – being able to gain a year’s worth of second-tier experience could prove critical to Lowe’s personal development, and could even work as a stepping stone to catapult the winger to even greater things…
