Hereford United manager Simon Davey has come under fire from Darlington manager Mark Cooper over the move of Dominik Werling to Edgar Street.
"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," 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."
The paper says that Darlington have benefited from Werling's move but doesn't go into details. It also says they are 'understood to be considering their legal position' over the matter.
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