Hungry leader Cooper will be ready for derby - Pedersen

Sheffield Wednesday head coach Henrik Pedersen says new signing Liam Cooper will be fit for the Steel City derby.

Cooper joined the Owls as a free agent during the international break setting up a potential reunion with former Leeds team-mate Patrick Bamford who could make his debut for rivals Sheffield United.

"I think he'll be ready for Sunday," Pedersen told BBC Radio Sheffield.

"He's fantastic. In this market now, to find experience is easy but to find experience with hunger can be difficult. He has both.

"He is fantastic at how he leads in the training, how he supports the players around him and how he makes an example for what is okay and what is not okay is fantastic so I'm really, really happy for Liam."

You can listen to more from Henrik Pedersen ahead of the Steel City derby on BBC Sounds.