please dont start talking that nonsense again!

please dont start talking that nonsense again!

cooper wont be coming this year if at all

Cooper is pretty much signed for 2009, behind the scenes Wigan are trying to make it 2008, SC and staged payments will help but is no guarantee..

and how would one know this?

Nothing is final, but Cooper wants to sign for Wigan to play alongside Trent, the only thing in the way is £££££ which can be staged.

yeah i can understand that, but where do you get the idea from?

I'd be very surprised if Wigan were prepared to go down the staged payments route again. That's the reason we only had £140 grand left for this year.

Can't believe people are still on about Cooper for this year. There isn't a chance in ehll unless he's willing to play for 30k.

Maybe next year but not this.

Don't see the problem with staged payments if it is a planned thing rather than a panic measure. It was down to it being a panic measure we ended up in the state we have and of course due to the "credit note" being staged over four years.

That said I am sure this latest Cooper rumour is a red herring. If there was even a remote chance he was coming this year the club would not have signed Carmont IMO until the proposed deal with Cooper was defintely a no-goer.

Dave

Its Highly unlikely you will sign cooper this year or even next year.

You could be right, but just to be on the safe side, we'll stick this comment with the "There's no chance Trent Barratt will ever come to Wigan," and the "Stuart Fielden going to Wigan - my ar2e!" comments that we still have a giggle about now and then.

one difference, you won't be giggling about mine

sorry pal

If you say so.

I mean, when guys of your authority make any sort of prophecy, the world stops and listens.

Honest.

We will not get cooper because of the money he demands, simple as that really isnt it?

Well nice to see an honest opinion

sure is, glad at least someone on here understands....

Its quite simple though really isnt it. We should well know this by now with salary cap situation we have been in recent seasons.

The question is, when are you going to understand that you have to lift the toilet lid before you pee?

Sorry, but to hear someone like you lecturing people about the realities of life is quite hilarious. I bet you also believe that Matt King's decision to join Warrington had nothing to do with Wigan deciding to withdraw their offer, don't you.

cooper would demand more than king????

Look mate its nothing special to beat Wigan to the signature of a player, every body does it now a days.

Which is good in many ways because it means that when the price gets too high, Wigan pull out. A tactic which should have been employed some time ago.

Only when we want them to.

If only we'd signed Matt King instead