Wigan Athletic boss Roberto Martinez is confident of closing new signings in the coming days.

Martinez says there was plenty of groundwork laid before the winter market opened last week.

He told the Wigan Evening Post: "To get the players in who you really want takes a long, long time.

"When you are looking at players for January, the work really starts in the summer.

"And that's something that has probably never happened here before - we don't seem to have had that long-term vision in the past.

"We haven't stopped for the past month, and now the transfer window's open it's all about organising everything and sorting the final details. But I can say we are very advanced on one or two things at the moment."