Cooper raps Davey over Werling move (From The Northern Echo)

Cooper raps Davey over Werling move

9:11am Saturday 4th September 2010 in

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ANGRY Darlington manager Mark Cooper has launched a scathing attack on ex-Quakers boss Simon Davey and revealed his frustration at the “cloak and dagger” manner in which he believes Dominik Werling left the club.

Werling this week joined Davey at Hereford United, despite the German telling Quakers he was mocing to a club closer to home as his mother was suffering from cancer.

This week’s transfer comes just three months after Davey left Quakers, saying he had been offered a coaching job in the US, only to then be appointed Hereford manager.

Werling joined Darlington last May, when Davey was in charge, and this week Quakers allowed him to buy-out his contract to secure a move to a club in Belgium.

But hours after Darlington severed ties with the 27-yearold, Hereford announced he had moved to Edgar Street.

Two days ago Davey, who also signed Werling when manager at Barnsley, said the left-back “was a last-minute arrival after we heard he had bought out his contract at Darlington and so was a free agent”.

But Cooper countered that Quakers only released Werling’s registration as they believed he was heading to a club in Belgium that was on the border with Germany.

Cooper said: “The way it was done – cloak and dagger – it would have been nice for a fellow manger to pick up the phone and tell me he wanted one of my players.

“But if you don’t want to come through the front door and want to come through the back door, that’s up to them, but that’s not the way I would do business.

“The player came to me and said he needed to go back to Germany because his mother had cancer and he needed to care for her.

“You become very sympathetic then so we tried to help Dominik find a club in Germany, or in Belgium, close to the German border. He said he didn’t want to play for Darlington again, he didn’t like the players, he didn’t like the place and he wanted to go back to Germany to look after his mother, who was sick.”

Werling appeared in a handful of pre-season friendlies but did not make a competitive appearance for Quakers.

He could make his Hereford debut in their game today at Burton Albion.

Cooper added: “I’d heard rumours that Hereford wanted him, via agents who were working in the background.

“His own agent came to see me and the chairman with Dominik and they told me he was going to Germany. They said he’d never ever work for Simon Davey again after the way he’d treated him in the summer, by signing him but not telling him he was leaving (for Hereford).

“But he’s done it like he has and I’m a great believer that you reap what you sow – what goes around comes around.”

The Northern Echo understands Quakers have benefited financially from Werling’s exit. But, regarding the manner of the player’s move to Hereford, the club are understood to be considering their legal position.

Cooper said: “We are better off without Dominik Werling.

He made it clear he didn’t want to mix with any of the players – he thought he was well above the rest of them – but we’re better off without him as we only want players who want to play for this club.

“This squad is tight and you have to buy into that when you come to this club, but Dominik didn’t.”