Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has said that manager Roberto Martinez will stay with the Barclays Premier League club.
The Spaniard was linked with moves to Liverpool and Aston Villa but according to Whelan will stick with the Latics, having been given his chairman's word he will be backed in the transfer market.
Whelan told ESPN on Wednesday: "Roberto is staying with us and I've agreed to his request to up our spending on youth development and training facilities. That's going to be pretty costly as I have agreed to a full-sized indoor pitch."
Martinez, linked to Villa despite rejecting an offer to manage the midlands club at the start of last season, met Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group in America last week to discuss the current vacancy at Anfield.
However, Whelan went on: "They set down their rules on how they saw the role and the way they wanted the team run and that was not the way Roberto would do it.
"Roberto has his own way of doing things but they are American owners who have their own ideas of how it should be done."
