Wigan Athletic have been enduring another challenging season in the Championship so far this campaign, with the Latics looking to retain their status in the English second tier after their promotion from League One in 2018.

Paul Cook’s side managed to beat the drop with a run of three wins in their final four Championship matches last season, which ensured they managed to survive a year from securing automatic promotion back into the English second tier.

Wigan have found themselves competing at the bottom end of the Championship and the top end of League one over the last few years, having had to adjust to life outside of the Premier League following their eight-season stay coming to an end in 2013.

During their time in the Premier League, and in previous seasons, the Latics have had some talented players who have gone onto perform very well for the club, but they have also had some players who for whatever reason did not manage to perform during their time at the club.

Here then, we take a look at five players who you probably had forgotten played for the Latics…

One player who will not have lived long in the memory for Wigan supporters was Angelo Henriquez, who arrived at the club on loan from Manchester United in January 2013, with the Latics hoping the striker would be able to add some extra firepower upfront as they aimed to keep themselves in the Premier League.

Henriquez, though, ultimately proved unable to make any real impact for the Latics during the second half of the 2012/13 season, with the striker managing to make just four appearances, although he did score a consolation goal in a 3-2 loss at home to Sunderland on his Premier League debut for the club – and he was also an unused substitute in their FA Cup final win against Manchester City.

Another player who Wigan supporters would be forgiven for have forgotten all about is Markus Holgersson, who joined the Latics as a free agent in February 2014, after the defender had been without a club during the first half of the 2013/14 season having left MLS side New York Red Bulls.

It was hoped that Holgersson could potentially provide some defensive reinforcements for the Latics during the latter part of the season, with Wigan targeting a top six finish in their first season back in the Championship, but he would go onto make just one appearance before being released at the end of the term.

Billy Mckay is another player who failed to really make any sort of lasting impression on Wigan supporters during his time with the club, with the striker having arrived at the Latics in January 2015, having shown some impressive form with Inverness Caledonian Thistle in Scotland during the first half of the 2014/15 season.

It was hoped that Mckay would come in and help provide some much-needed extra attacking threat up front, as Wigan looked to recover their form and halt a slide down the Championship table, but the striker failed to score in nine appearances as the Latics were relegated to League One, before making just one more appearance for the club prior to his exit in 2017.

Compared to some players in this group Kim Bo-Kyung enjoyed a lengthy spell in the Latics’ side, but the midfielder who arrived at the club in February 2015 after he had been released by Cardiff City, did not manage to make too much of an impact for Wigan during his short spell at the DW Stadium.

The South Korean did manage to make 18 appearances for the Latics during the second half of the 2014/15 season, but he did not really manage to find the sort of consistency he had shown during his time at Cardiff, and he was allowed to leave the club at the end of the season going onto have spells in Japan and his native South Korea.

One of the more notable players out of this group, but Wigan supporters can be forgiven for forgetting that Gabriel Obertan ever played for the Latics, with the forward who has enjoyed a very strange career which has taken him to France, England, Bulgaria, Russia and Turkey, signing for the Latics in January 2017 from Anzhi Makhachkala.

Obertan went onto make 12 appearances for the Latics in the Championship registering his one and only goal for the club in a 3-2 win against Rotherham United in April, but he ultimately struggled for any real consistent form and could not help the club avoid relegation back to League One, before he was released by Wigan at the end of the 2016/17 season.