Only speculation at this stage but it could have legs.
"LEE Mossop has been linked with a return to Super League next season – but not with Wigan.
The prop left the Warriors at the end of 2013 to join Parramatta on a two-year deal. His debut NRL season was bookended by long spells on the sidelines with shoulder problems.
Despite his injuries, Mossop’s stock remains high and at least one Super League outfit are pushing hard to sign him for 2015 – raising the possibility of him playing against the club where he made 111 appearances over six seasons.
Under the terms of his six-figure transfer to Parramatta, Wigan retained first option on his services if he decided to return to Super League.
He is highly regarded at the Warriors and was in their dressing room during the play-offs.
But coach Shaun Wane has previously made no secret of the fact they have little room left under the salary cap limit of £1.6m.
A deal for Huddersfield’s Larne Patrick is also thought to be down the line.
Mossop, who became a dad two months ago, has not made any public comments suggesting he wants to cut short his NRL deal, but at least one outfit are chasing him hard.
Meanwhile, details of Wigan’s World Club Series game against Brisbane should be made next Wednesday. They are scheduled to meet on Saturday February 21 as part of the six-team competition.
But Latics are at home on the same day, meaning one fixture will need to be moved if both are to be played at the DW Stadium."
http://www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-warriors/mossop-in-link-with-early-exit-from-nrl-1-6932575
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As long as we are not topping up his contract.
He got the best surgeons to fix his shoulders on our payroll, then pisses off back home - nice one.
Mmmm he was a waste of money and here's me saying give him a chance...we got enough poms in the squad, why have another one?
Theres been a bit of talk about this for a while, not sure if its got any legs to it, but i'd be guessing where theres smoke theres fire in this case
After his shoulder dramas i wouldnt be worried if he left, very disappointing signing, i backed him to go good, fek hes only made it on the park for about 40 minutes in two games.
I bagged him from day one Snake - makes the egg taste so much better now. LOL
Despite that above article, Wigan will probably still sign him, if he was to move back to England.
FWIW, the Dragons were the NRL team that he was heavily linked to/with.
We have enough middle forwards for next year and it's possible that one will be on the bench for our NSW cup team, that is the depth that we have in middle forwards. If we let Mossop go it means that we'll have 100-200k free for next year and the year after so we can front-end yet another contract so that we'll have $400k free for the next year.
Any club would kill to be in the position to front-load this many contracts and have heaps of money in the kitty for 2016.
Wicks, Robinson, faoso and taka would all be on nearly minimum contracts or maybe one or two of them on no more then 150k and watmough on probably 600k a year there is no way we are over unless we front ended contracts which I'm all for.
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