Linked but didn't sign - Kenny Cooper

I was wondering what had to must have American FC Dallas striker Kenny Cooper after I was told he did finally make it over to play in the League.

Little bit of history

He played college football/soccer and decided to pursue a professional career and end up at Manchester United. While there he was loaned out to Académica de Coimbra of Portugal and Oldham Athletic but having not broken into the first team squad he return to the USA.

He signed up with MLS club FC Dallas and was an immediate hit with the fans and was soon a member of the USA national team. In the summer of 2008 he linked with the Bluebirds and there was a lot of rumour and counter rumour and a £2million offer was made. Buying players in the MLS is nowhere has easy as anywhere else in the world,

The MLS actually owns the rights to the players not the club. So in order to a player to be sold to a club outside of MLS, the buyer needs to get permission from MLS and the MLS team that the player plays for.

It seem the USA international was Wales bound to Cardiff City until Norwegian club Rosenberg barged they way into the deal with a higher bid and the offer of higher wages. In the end MLS wanted to sell but FC Dallas wanted to keep him.

He did move over to Europe in August 2009 joined Bundesliga team 1860 Munich for an undisclosed fee and seem to settle in scoring on is debut. However in January he joined Championship strugglers Plymouth but was only a bit part player in their eventual relegation. He never started a game coming off the bench seven times and scoring no goals. Plymouth declined the chance to make the loan a permanent and return to Germany. A few days after returning to pre-season in a traning indcent he broke his leg and will be out for three months.