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AUSTRALIAN CLUB DENY TALKS WITH YORKE Print E-mail

The Central Coast Mariners have quashed reports Dwight Yorke is due for talks with the A-League club.

The former Manchester United and Sydney FC playmaker told Network Seven he was hoping to discuss his future with the Mariners over the next few days.

However  Mariners executive chairman Lyall Gorman insisted "it's not going to happen".


Yorke, 36, said he felt he still had the game and fitness to compete in the A-League despite his age and was looking forward to returning to Australia after two years in the English Premier League with Sunderland.

"No disrespect to the Australian league (but) it's not quite like the Premiership so I feel I can do a great job there again like I did the first year that I went there two years ago," said Yorke, who guided Sydney to the inaugural A-League title in 2005/06. "It will be a great challenge if the opportunity comes to represent the Mariners next year.

"I just hope that opportunity is given to me to return to Australia." Gorman held talks with Yorke's management last December and said nothing came of it. "We spoke to his management way, way, way back. It's not going to happen," he said. (April 17, 2008)
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