Departing Pompey chairman Iain McInnes this week insisted the Blues hadn’t ever considered parting with Paul Cook – this is the topic of our latest poll.
This came in the wake of Cook himself saying he would ‘never’ leave Pompey. Not by choice anyway, well, unless Liverpool came in for him.
According to BBC Radio Solent Cookie is on Wigan’s shortlist and he in fact IS interested in talking to the Latics, at least? As far as the BBC is concerned no official approach has been made for Cookie, who played for Wigan from 1984 until 1988, returning for a loan during the 2001-2002 season, but the Pompey boss would be ‘interested in talking’ to our would-be League One rivals?
The News, like the Beeb, report no official approach for Cookie, installed as the bookies favourite for the Wigan job, has been made.
Well, I wasn’t expecting any such news as this I must say. Enda Stevens being lured away from Fratton Park, to Sheffield United it seems, isn’t too surprising, Michael Doyle returning to Coventry was unexpected, but Cookie leaving Pompey WOULD be a huge shock if it happened?
Then again, with Michael Eisner’s proposed takeover bid ongoing, as much as it’s been suggested he would retain Cookie, maybe he might feel he has to look after his own future? It’ll be interesting to see what actually does happen should Wigan make an official approach.
In reality Liverpool isn’t a club he is ever likely to manage but Kirkby-born Cookie did make his Football League debut for Wigan, which isn’t too far from Merseyside – does a return to (his nearby) roots at a former club appeal?
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