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From Belgian elite to trying to keep Latics afloat

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The LeaguePaper Team
20 August 2023

BIG INTERVIEW: SHAUN MALONEY
By Chris Dunlavy
Shaun Maloney had a job to die for coaching Kevin De Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and the many luminaries of the Belgium national team.
Jetting around the globe. Dining with the stars. Ringside seats at Euro 2020. “A dream,” is how he describes those three years as an assistant to Roberto Martinez.
What the Scot walked into at Wigan last January can, by contrast, only be described as a nightmare.
An owner who’d run out of cash and couldn’t afford to pay his staff. A club at the bottom of the Championship. A team bereft of shape or morale following the we...

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