{"id":182258,"date":"2025-10-06T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/182258\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:32:18","slug":"craig-bellamy-matter-of-time-until-england-win-trophy-wales-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/182258\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy: &#8216;Matter of time&#8217; until England win trophy &#8211; Wales boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before facing England on the field, Wales have been taking on their neighbours by trying to convince Tottenham Hotspur winger Mikey Moore to switch international allegiance to play for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore, who is on loan at Scottish Premiership side Rangers, has represented England Under-19s but qualifies for Wales through a grandparent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport Wales revealed last week that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gkw0zd9w1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Football Association of Wales (FAW) had contacted the 18-year-old Londoner,<\/a> with Bellamy among those to have spoken to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We look at every player that&#8217;s available,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;d prefer it if it wasn&#8217;t aired, if I&#8217;m being honest, it does us no favours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do our work behind the scenes. We do it for every player we feel is going to offer us something, but I&#8217;m always against pressure from the outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken to a lot of players we feel would definitely benefit us in the future &#8211; we need a big squad, so we&#8217;re always aware of that. We would be naive not to be aware of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No individual, I don&#8217;t believe, especially young players, should be in the public domain. I understand it but it&#8217;s not how I go about it. For me to mention individuals, I never do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But for us, we&#8217;re always aware of who can represent us. Do they have the mentality, do they have the ability to add to us? And if they do, then we&#8217;re always aware and always trying to be as active as we can, as we have been for a number of years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before facing England on the field, Wales have been taking on their neighbours by trying to convince Tottenham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-182258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}