{"id":31088,"date":"2026-06-20T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/steve-cooper-on-wales-radar-amid-craig-bellamys-burnley-links\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:09:32","slug":"steve-cooper-on-wales-radar-amid-craig-bellamys-burnley-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/steve-cooper-on-wales-radar-amid-craig-bellamys-burnley-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cooper on Wales&#8217; radar amid Craig Bellamy&#8217;s Burnley links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales are preparing for head coach Craig Bellamy&#8217;s possible move to Burnley with a shortlist of potential successors which includes former Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Football Association of Wales (FAW) bosses held informal talks with Cooper before news emerged of Burnley&#8217;s renewed interest in Bellamy, while ex-Wolves manager Rob Edwards is also under consideration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Clarets have stepped up their pursuit of Bellamy as they search for a new manager after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cglpkgz1e8wo#:~:text=%22Scott%20Parker%20has%20left%20his,at%20Turf%20Moor%20would%20conclude.\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Scott Parker departed following their relegation<\/a> from the Premier League last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnley have not yet reached an agreement with the FAW, which wants at least \u00a31m in compensation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Bellamy rejoins the club where he worked as an assistant coach under now Bayern Munich manager Vincent Kompany, the FAW already has a list of possible replacements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Forest and Swansea City boss Cooper is a leading candidate and would not require a compensation fee as he has been out of work since leaving Danish side Brondby earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like Cooper, Edwards would have been in a strong position to get the Wales job when Bellamy was appointed in 2024, had he not been at a Premier League club &#8211; Luton in Edwards&#8217; case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The FAW has also kept tabs on Eric Ramsay, the former Wales and Manchester United assistant coach who was briefly in charge of West Bromwich Albion during the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cq81z0xn702o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales are preparing for head coach Craig Bellamy&#8217;s possible move to Burnley with a shortlist of potential successors which includes former Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper. Football Association of Wales (FAW) bosses held informal talks with Cooper before news emerged of Burnley&#8217;s renewed interest in Bellamy, while ex-Wolves manager Rob Edwards is also under consideration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31090,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088\/revisions\/31090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}