{"id":576863,"date":"2025-11-17T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576863\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:38:12","slug":"liam-cooper-sheffield-wednesday-sign-former-leeds-united-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576863\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Cooper: Sheffield Wednesday sign former Leeds United defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sheffield Wednesday have signed former Leeds United defender Liam Cooper on a deal until the end of the season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old Scotland international was a free agent after leaving Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wednesday were placed into administration last month and are bottom of the Championship on minus four points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He could make his debut for the Owls in Sunday&#8217;s Steel City derby against Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper joined Leeds from Chesterfield in 2014 and made 263 league appearances for the Whites across 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday have signed former Leeds United defender Liam Cooper on a deal until the end of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-576863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115566969139369419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}