As I put on this site a month ago. ( see below) This was inevitable, even the stupid Yanks must realise an employee applying for new jobs is not happy and has to go.
We need to be rid of Cooper as soon as possible.
He has applied for the Crystal Palace and Fulham jobs, so he obviously wants to go for a bigger salary.
Palace were not prepared to pay the 2.7M compensation fee to gamble on him but we now know his long term plan is to leave.
If he gets success this year and I doubt very much he will, as he has exhausted all his known loan players from the under 17's.
By success I mean top ten which would possibly catapult him to a struggling Premier side, top 6 definitely, promotion would keep him but that's a big doubt.
He knows that success this year will be extremely hard with owners who don't invest, he also knows failure to get top 6 will see him fade into insignificance.
Top 10 and he's gone, Top 6 and definitely gone, Promotion and he stays, anything less and he will be begging to stay.
Ashleigh Williams should be looked at as a long term replacement, if Joe Allen is given a free, take him as captain, we need people with strong Swansea roots and who do not need to look as much for financial gain as they are well off.
Its time to move forward and Cooper is not the one, otherwise he would have been snapped up already, so why assist him when we know he wants away.
I will be even more happy if the owners sell up to someone who understands football