{"id":282337,"date":"2025-11-14T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282337\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:16:16","slug":"edwards-done-exactly-the-same-thing-as-me-froggatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282337\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards &#8216;done exactly the same thing as me&#8217; &#8211; Froggatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Wolves winger Steve Froggatt believes Rob Edwards has &#8220;done the right thing for himself&#8221; after joining a club he has a &#8220;21-year association with&#8221; and choosing to leave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/middlesbrough?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Middlesbrough;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Middlesbrough<\/a> just four months into his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on BBC Radio WM&#8217;s Football Phone-In, Froggatt called the criticism Edwards has received &#8220;slightly unfair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has just had a house recently built in this area and he has a young family,&#8221; Froggatt said. &#8220;I made a big career decision years ago as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I left Wolves, I actually could have gone to four Premier League clubs. I went up to Middlesbrough and I was offered an absolute fortune, then I went to see Gordon Strachan at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/coventry-city?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Coventry City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Coventry City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew in my heart of hearts that the worst move for my pregnant wife would be Middlesbrough, a place where she had no family contacts and would be bringing up two young children, so I made a decision for my family.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the best decision ever because everyone said I&#8217;d never do anything if I went to Coventry City. I was vindicated when I got into the England squad at the end of my third season there and I was able to say: &#8216;Actually, I chose the right club for me&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rob Edwards has done exactly the same thing. He loves the club, he has a 21-year association with Wolves, he knows the club inside out and he won&#8217;t have to settle in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He passionately wanted this job so &#8211; shock horror &#8211; he left another football club. If the boot was on the other foot, a football club can sack a manager without thinking twice about it within a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has done the right thing for himself &#8211; and I think for Wolves as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0mgd8t0?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Listen to the full discussion on BBC Sounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Listen to the full discussion on BBC Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763115376_647_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wolves winger Steve Froggatt believes Rob Edwards has &#8220;done the right thing for himself&#8221; after joining a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[128445,49,48,128447,128446,128444,128443,128441,561,82,128442,13714],"class_list":["post-282337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bbc-radio-wm","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-england-squad","tag-football-club","tag-gordon-strachan","tag-middlesbrough","tag-rob-edwards","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-steve-froggatt","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}