Quote: Mash Butty "So Hetherington didn't let Lee Smith go to RU & then couldn't recognise a crocked player when he returned? Whereas IL sold a player RU for £250k & to NRL for £700k (or whatever the world record fee was) and got them back for £nil/£200k, that's just bad business isn't it? Unconvinced? Really?
As for the second wealthiest backer who so rarely visited the Harlequinns that he perhaps thought he bought shares in the RU side, he never contributed any money to that squad - perhaps thats a lesson in that we shouldn't deal with Scottish based backers anymore. A'"
We're talking David Hughes, right?
Lenagan's record as a Rugby League businessman is pretty abysmal by any standards - the financial performance of Wigan is embarrassing not just in the scale of the losses but moreover in the direction of travel - it's getting worse and worse every year.
I don't think Hetherington needs to take any lessons on buying and selling in the transfer market from anyone. This is the man who sold Iestyn Harris to Wales for £1m (plus a corporate box in Cardiff) then sold him again to Bradford for £550k.
