Wigan Athletic have confirmed the signing of Blues target Anthony Pilkington from Cardiff City on an 18-month contract.

As reported yesterday, Town had made the better financial offer to Pilkington and following talks at Portman Road the Blackburn-born 30-year-old was close to signing for the Blues, but ultimately took the decision to join the Latics for purely personal reasons because his family home is in the North West and he was keen to relocate there.

Town boss Paul Lambert had targeted the Republic of Ireland international wideman after working with him at Norwich, where he signed him from Huddersfield in a £2 million deal almost eight years ago.

Pilkington, who had also been linked with Blackburn, was out of favour at Cardiff, having not played for them since April last year and helping them to win promotion to the Premier League.

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TonyHumesIpswich added 10:31 - Jan 10 Really good player. Shame.
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MrTown added 10:32 - Jan 10 Shame. Doesn't matter though, we've got Simon Dawkins.
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BoxerBlue added 10:33 - Jan 10 Give it a rest MrTown You're like a broken record!!
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ForeverBlueSince1996 added 10:35 - Jan 10 Don't see how people can moan when we offered him more money. Actually refreshing to see a player not just care about money, unfortunate for us though.
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MrTown added 10:37 - Jan 10 Nice to see him put family first to be fair.
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beornioblue added 10:37 - Jan 10 for the first time it actually seems we did everything possible to sign this player, sometimes its just not meant to be onwards and upwards
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PositivelyPortman added 10:44 - Jan 10 MrTown get a job and give us some peace. You'd be heartbroken if we stayed up wouldn't you?
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dubblue added 10:44 - Jan 10 The outcome was not what we wanted but on this occasion you can't blame the club nor the player, at 30 family must come first.
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BluePatriot added 10:45 - Jan 10 It was obvious he did'nt want to come The team needs to play for each other now and show the championship some real fight !!!
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floridaboy added 10:51 - Jan 10 Shame but it is refreshing to see a footballer putting family ahead of money. That is what annoyed me about Waghorn. His moved his family and parents to Suffolk and 5 minutes later is moving to Derby for more money He was obviously on good money here but probably got greedy! And please don't someone bang on about it being a short career. If you cant cope on £5-10k a week then you are doing something very very wrong!

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bluearmy78 added 10:58 - Jan 10 We move on, I'm sure Lambert has more irons in the fire! COYB
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rugbytomc added 11:04 - Jan 10 Double shame because it strengthens one of our relegation rivals
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Welshblue72 added 11:23 - Jan 10 Mr town more like Mr clown always make me laugh with his comments 😂
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dirtydingusmagee added 11:29 - Jan 10 as Fast Show ''Unlucky Alf '' would say , b#gger. ?
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algarvefan added 11:29 - Jan 10 Fair play to Town, the obviously really tried to get him here, can't blame the player either. Move on now, who else can we target, suggestions anyone?
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Dissboyitfc added 12:02 - Jan 10 I just hope he does help Wigan, they looked truly awful at our place and I believe they are in free fall. COYB,s
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Dissboyitfc added 12:03 - Jan 10 Meant to say “does not help”
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miltonsnephew added 12:24 - Jan 10 This is who we should be looking at, looks decent would be for a nominal fee.
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miltonsnephew added 12:26 - Jan 10 Need a bit of flair, creativity and someone with a eye for goal from midfield. 39 games 27 goals. Why not?
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geminimustang added 13:55 - Jan 10 My concern is Wigan,Preston and especially Reading appear to be strengthening with quality and not numbers.No criticism of ME or PL but this window is panning our the way i'd hoped and expected.I thought £M's would've been spent to avoid relegation by the Club.
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positivity added 17:16 - Jan 11 did we offer 18 months, thought we were just offering 6?
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