Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan has assured Roberto Martinez that his job is safe at the Premier League club, even if the Latics get relegated at the end of the season.

Wigan currently sit at the bottom of the league table, claiming just two wins out of 14 matches.

"Sacking him isn't even a consideration. Roberto is a fantastic, honest manager who knows our strengths and weaknesses," Whelan told The Independent. "There will be no way I will sack him. And if we did get relegated to the Championship I have every faith in him to get us promoted again.

"It is a partnership at a football club, everyone has to realise that. You have to have partnerships to succeed between manager and players and manager and boardroom.

"Wigan have that. We're the smallest club in the Premier League but I would say there is no doubt about it that we are the happiest out of the 20."

The Latics take on West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns on Saturday.