McArthur wants to focus on finishing the season with Accies

By Liam McLeod

Hamilton midfielder James McArthur has admitted he will spend time at Wigan Athletic but says a move from New Douglas Park is not a certainty.

The 22-year-old has been linked with a move to the English Premier League club but is adamant he is focused on Accies.

"I'll train with them for a few days so that'll be good," he told BBC Scotland after his side's 1-0 defeat by Rangers.

"The gaffer and my agent is sorting it out so I'll let them deal with it and I'll just keep playing away."

Wigan manager Roberto Martinez has admitted that McArthur is on his transfer radar for the summer.

I don't want to keep saying the same things but I just just want to concentrate on my own game and maybe add a few goals to it James McArthur

Martinez signed McArthur's former team-mate McCarthy last summer and the 19-year-old has recently established himself in the first-team.

However, McArthur is happy to focus on finishing the season with Accies before mulling over his future.

"Right now, I'm just concentrating on my own game here and, hopefully, we can keep picking up points," said McArthur.

"It would be a massive step-up for me but it's not certain that I'm going to move.

"I don't want to keep saying the same things but I just just want to concentrate on my own game and maybe add a few goals to it."

And a goal was something he deserved at Ibrox with he and skipper Alex Neil pulling the strings in midfield against a tired looking Rangers.

He had the ball in the net before assistant referee Steven Craven flagged him offside with television pictures suggesting it was the wrong call.

But McArthur refused to point the finger at Craven or match referee Stevie O'Reilly.

"It looked like it was onside but you can't do much about that," he said.

"People get things wrong, referees get things wrong, players get things wrong so I'm not going to criticise anyone for getting a decision wrong.

"On the day I though we played excellent and it was joy to play out there, we got the ball down and were passing throughout the whole game.

"I felt over the 90 minutes we deserved something out of the game, at least a point."

McArthur is determined that Accies will finish the season on high as the close in on a third straight SPL campaign.

"Most people don't but we rate ourselves on these games (against Rangers)," he added.

"We've come here last season and really done ourselves justice really but this season we've come and drawn in 90 minutes in the cup and put on a really good display today.

"It just shows you how far we've come as a club and as a team."

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