Young Liverpool left-back Luke Chambers will remain on loan at Wigan Athletic until the end of the campaign. Chambers, 20, joined the Greater Manchester club on a season-long loan last summer, but the recurrence of a back problem saw him return to his parent club for treatment in October.
The youngster has not featured since, and is not expected to return for Wigan any time soon, but Wigan boss Shaun Maloney confirmed he will be able to call on him whenever he returns to fitness during the second half of the season.
"He's still a Wigan player, and it's brilliant news," Wigan manager Shaun Maloney told Wigan Today. "Liverpool have allowed us to keep him here. Look, it's not going to be any time in the next few weeks you'll see him back in a Wigan jersey.
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"We're still going to have to manage him carefully, and he probably won't be able to play three games in a week all the time. I'd imagine it'll be around the March international weekend that we'll see him back on the field, and we're all looking forward to that."
Maloney praised Chambers' character and called on him to win back his place in the team upon his return to fitness. "He loves it here, and he's a lovely boy to have around the place," Maloney said. "But at the same time he's going to fight as well if he wants to get back into the team.
"We've got two left-backs - Robbo (Luke Robinson) and Jon Mellish - and he will have competition for that shirt. But he is a good one and we can't wait to see him back out on the field."
