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By Greg Stobart<\/a> | Northern Correspondent<\/p>\n

Wigan Athletic<\/a> are set to make a third and final offer of \u00a34 million to sign goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi<\/a> on a permanent deal from Bolton Wanderers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Al Habsi spent a hugely impressive loan spell at the DW Stadium last season and Wigan manager Roberto Martinez has a \u00a33m bid on the table for the Oman international.<\/p>\n

Wigan’s initial bid of \u00a32.5m was rejected and Bolton are asking for \u00a35m for the 29-year-old, who is eager to complete the switch and play regular first-team football next season.<\/p>\n

Bolton boss Owen Coyle is continuing to look for replacement second-choice goalkeepers and Wigan are confident of sealing a deal in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Martinez has admitted he is considering alternative options should Bolton stick to their asking price, but he expects a resolution \u201cvery soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI suspect one way or another we’ll find out very, very soon which way it’ll go,\u201d Martinez told the\u00a0 Evening Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, there is nothing to report, but we remain hopeful of doing the deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are talking about a player like Ali, you need to do everything you can to keep him at the football club. But in this situation, when he is not under contract to us, things are not totally in our hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur priority of course would be to keep Ali, but if we have to move for another player in that position then that’s what we’ll do.<\/p>\n

\u201cAli has made it clear he’d love to carry on his time with us, and we’d love to keep him, but we’ll have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al Habsi played 33 games for the Latics last term and was voted as the fans’ player of the season, after making only 10 appearances in four years at Reebok Stadium.<\/p>\n

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