Steve Cooper, the head coach of Nottingham Forest, is pictured during the Premier League match between Nottingham Forest and Everton at the City Ground in Nottingham, England, on December 2, 2023. (Photo by MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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In exchange for Swansea hiring Steve Cooper as their next manager, Nottingham Forest has promised to pay him.
Following an agreement between the clubs for a fee in the neighborhood of £1.2 million, the 41-year-old is anticipated to be appointed at the City Ground.
Cooper left his position as head coach in July, but he is still bound by his Liberty Stadium contract till 2022.
As temporary manager Steven Reid gets ready to lead the club to Huddersfield on Saturday, negotiations are still going on regarding the specifics of his new deal with Forest.
Cooper was reportedly in talks with Forest on Thursday, according to a report from Sky Sports News. Forest had chosen Cooper as their preferred replacement for Chris Hughton.
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After leading the Swans to the Championship play-off final last season on a shoestring budget, Cooper was well-liked at the Liberty Stadium and is now seen as the guy to develop their young and underachieving group.
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Hughton is under siege from Cardiff.
They tried to talk to him about extending his contract, but he quit. Premier League team Crystal Palace looked at him when they were looking for a new manager in the summer and ended up hiring Patrick Vieira.
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Pictured: In October 2020, Chris Hughton took Sabri Lamouchi’s place at the City Ground.
For what reason does Steve Cooper?
Cooper is particularly appealing to the Forest administration, according to Sky Sports News, because of his history of developing young players at Liberty Stadium and his prior experience working with development teams at the FA.
There are presently 14 first team players at Forest under 25, one of them is the highly regarded forward Brennan Johnson, who Premier League Brentford is pursuing this summer.
Given that negotiations between Forest and Cooper’s agents are reportedly in their early stages, it seems likely that Steven Reid, the interim manager, will take charge of the team when it plays Huddersfield on Saturday.
Chris Wilder, the former manager of Sheffield United, was also favored to take over at Forest; but, after preliminary discussions, the team opted to explore alternative managerial options.
Highlights from Nottingham Forest vs. Middlesbrough in the Sky Bet Championship Cooper would be the club’s 20th manager since 2011, carrying on the tradition of having a new manager in charge at least once a year since Billy Davies’ initial tenure.
Sabri Lamouchi, who has been in command for just over 15 months, continues to be the manager with the longest tenure over the past ten years.
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David Prutton, an EFL expert for Sky Sports:
By no means do I mean to imply that it is indifferent; rather, it is not surprising. He had been there since October of last year, and in the context of the Championship, nearly a year is a very long time to try and turn a football team around.
“There seem to be a lot of ingrained issues there that require investigation. Over the last two or three seasons, Forest has changed a ludicrous number of players—if my memory serves me correctly, the turnover was in the mid 80s. However, the team that faced Middlesbrough is one that shouldn’t be at the bottom of the table. That is a squad that has no business supporting the rest of the division, and I believe Chris has paid the price—as all managers do when their teams are struggling.
