{"id":768231,"date":"2026-06-29T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768231\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:48:10","slug":"rob-edwards-turns-down-approach-from-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768231\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Edwards turns down approach from Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rob Edwards has turned down an approach from Burnley, leaving the Clarets still looking for a new manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards, who was surprisingly sacked as Wolves head coach earlier this month, had been a candidate for the Turf Moor job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was under consideration even while Burnley pursued Craig Bellamy to replace Scott Parker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gywygqlgdo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">only for Bellamy to have a last-minute change of heart and opt to stay with Wales.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means Burnley remain without a manager two months after Parker&#8217;s departure following the club&#8217;s relegation from the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnley&#8217;s squad were due to return for pre-season fitness checks on Monday and will travel to the United States for a tour next month, with their first game, against FC Cincinnati, on 11 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards was available after his Wolves exit, which came after the club had backed the 43-year-old, despite relegation from the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He joined from Middlesbrough in November, with the club turning to their former defender to stabilise them and bring them back to the top flight, but he was replaced by Portuguese coach Cesar Peixoto. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Edwards has turned down an approach from Burnley, leaving the Clarets still looking for a new manager.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-768231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}