Domestic-league season · Sheffield Wednesday.
Missed 15 of Sheffield Wednesday's ~46 games this season through 15 injury absences (groin, injury). He still appeared 14 times — a solid return given how little of the season he was available. His rating is judged mainly on the games he was fit to play.
| Competition | Apps | G | A | Min | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Championship | 14 | 1 | 0 | 909 | 6.71 |
 First Leagueat CSKA Sofia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 180 | 6.95 |
Following his move to Sheffield Wednesday, Cooper's current-season form is level with last season (Season 10→12), while his Rating eased 26→14. His peak season for form remains 2020/21 (Season 61).
| Season | Club | Apps | G | A | Match | RTG | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | Sheffield Wednesday · 24th | 14 | 1 | 0 | 6.71 | 14 | 12 |
| 2023/24 | Leeds · 3rd | 16 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 26 | 10 |
| 2022/23 | Leeds · 19th | 18 | 1 | 0 | 6.71 | 40 | 21 |
| 2021/22 | Leeds · 17th | 21 | 0 | 1 | 7.02 | 49 | 28 |
| 2020/21 | Leeds · 9th | 25 | 1 | 0 | 7.08 | 61 | 61 |
Domestic-league totals per season. RTG = Field Insider Rating (potential / ceiling); Season = age-blind form that year.
L. Cooper is a 34-year-old central defender at Sheffield Wednesday, rated 14 overall by Field Insider's model, ranking 483rd of 493 in the Championship. A seasoned veteran, he has been a fringe squad member this season (32.6% of available minutes). His defensive output reads 4.55 tackles, blocks and interceptions per 90. Below: strengths, watch-points, market-value outlook and the latest transfer news on Cooper.
Judged on this season alone, Cooper graded 12 — a workmanlike campaign that ranks 69th of 82 of the 82 centre-backs in the Championship, on 1 clean sheet and 4.554 defensive actions per 90.
Year-on-year, that's broadly in line with last season (Season 10 → 12). Over the 5 seasons on record his form has drifted down, peaking in 2020/21.
On long-term talent our Rating reads 14, 81st of 82 of the 82 centre-backs in the Championship. At 34 Cooper is into the veteran stage, where the age curve weighs on the projection, and a market index of 5.4 reflects that trajectory.
Read the appearance count in context: Cooper missed 15 games through injury (groin, injury) out of roughly 46 this season. The 14 he did play is a solid return on the time he was fit, and his ratings are weighted toward those games rather than the ones he sat out injured.
Past his 2020/21 peak — the recent trend is downward, so buyers are paying for what's left, not what was.
4.55 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — solid defensive volume, with 1 clean sheet across 14 appearances. Doing that for a relegation-threatened side (24th of 24) is harder than the bare numbers suggest: a back line under more pressure has to defend more often and protects fewer leads, so the volume — and any clean sheets — carry real weight. Going forward he chipped in 1 goal and 0 assists — a useful bonus from the back.
With a Rating of 14, Cooper carries the 81st-highest potential of the centre-backs in the Championship of 82 — though on just 14 appearances this season, so the standing rests on a small sample. Defensively he reads as solid defensive volume (4.55 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90). Veteran phase — a short-term, lower-fee proposition as both level and value decline (0.6× and falling).
Generated from Field Insider's rating model · AI-written analysis to follow.
The gold line is market value — an index (not €) blending rating, age and league. It climbs through the early 20s, peaks around ages 23–27 (~18), then tapers with age. At 34, Cooper sits on 5.4, past its peak and easing. The blue line is Cooper's projected Rating — 14 today — recomputed at each age, so it follows the same rise-and-fall as a career matures and declines. Solid = up to today; dashed = projected.
No transfer news found for this player.
