: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:24 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

If there is no player swap, do you have room under the cap for gleeson? he will probably want around £100k/yr

Do we feck!

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:32 pm  

If Ian Lenagan's to be believed (and I see no reason so far not to).....

We only have around £20k left under the cap, so off-loading Mathers (something he's incapable of) would be necessary.

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:36 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

If there is no player swap, do you have room under the cap for gleeson? he will probably want around £100k/yr

He'll be on big money, he was at Saints and then even more at Warrington. Money took him to the Wolves.

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:38 pm  

I can't believe how many people are getting excited about the prospect of signing Gleeson What exactly has he done since leaving St.Helens? He's proved what an average player he reallly is.

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:42 pm  

Katrina wrote:

I can't believe how many people are getting excited about the prospect of signing Gleeson What exactly has he done since leaving St.Helens? He's proved what an average player he reallly is.

Which means he'll instantly become our best player should he sign.

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:46 pm  

cadoo wrote:

Taken from another poster on the other website.

The WEP has given us a better insight to the situation at the moment.

Hardly. You've already confirmed this:-

Deal is done today.
Announced tomorrow.

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:49 pm  

Katrina wrote:

I can't believe how many people are getting excited about the prospect of signing Gleeson What exactly has he done since leaving St.Helens? He's proved what an average player he reallly is.

Continued to be arguably England's No1 centre and one of the very Few English players who didn't do their reputation any harm at the WC in OZ???

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:55 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

If there is no player swap, do you have room under the cap for gleeson? he will probably want around £100k/yr

Not a problem, we got form for breaking the cap

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:55 pm  

wigan_knight wrote:

Whats that got to do with a tranfer fee ??

Transfer fees are a fairly unusual thing in the modern game

To expect Lenagan to be stumping up big transfer fees is unrealistic.

The only major fee we paid in the DW ML era was for Fielden, and that involved highly unusual circumstances.

If Wire are demanding players plus a fee for Gleeson then IL is perfectly entitled to back down if he feels the asking price is disproportionate.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:55 pm  

Glynola wrote:

Would you prefer to go back to the days of inflated contracts and annual points deductions?

you're still half way there if goulding is on 60k.