Bulls with or without Werling

According to this morning's Western Gazette, the Hereford United winger Dominic Werling is not in the squad to face Taunton this afternoon.

The last time Werling was included in a match day squad was against Lincoln City in the FA Cup game at Edgar Street on November 20th.

There has not been any mention of an injury to Werling since that day.

Werling, who was signed by Simon Davey, appeared to join the Bulls from Darlington in strange circumstances. Firstly it was said that his mother had cancer and he wished to return to Germany. Secondly there were rumours of a training ground bust-up.

Back in the middle of August manager Mark Cooper revealed that Werling wanted to leave Darlington.

"He wants to leave the club," Cooper told the Northern Echo.

"He’s told us he wants to go back to Germany, apparently his mother’s ill.

"We’ll not let him go for nothing to an English club.

"I think it’s important that we get that on record."

After Werling had signed for the Bulls Cooper wasn't happy.

"The way it was done – cloak and dagger – it would have been nice for a fellow manager to pick up the phone and tell me he wanted one of my players," Cooper told the Northern Echo.

"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.

"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."

Davey agreed a two year deal with Werling.

"He was a last-minute arrival after we heard that he had bought out his contract at Darlington and so was a free agent," said Davey at the time.

"I brought him in from Turkey when I was manager of Barnsley and then signed him for Darlington.

"He can play in all the left-sided positions.

"He was a last-minute arrival after we heard that he had bought out his contract at Darlington and so was a free agent."

Fast forward to early December and it appears that, just like at Darlington, there was a training ground bust-up between Werling and management.

Since then he hasn't featured in either of the two games played by the Bulls, at Bradford and Wycombe.

As at this morning Werling is still on the profile page of the OS. Given the bust-up and non appearances maybe he's a candidate to go out on loan if he's still around.

Unless he features this afternoon.

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