Sunday People

Boss Cook is food for thought at Turf Moor

- EXCLUSIVE Harry Pratt

WIGAN boss Paul Cook will be a contender for the Burnley job should Sean Dyche leave this summer.

With Championsh­ip Wigan going into administra­tion last week – and a 12-point deduction sending them into crisis on the field – the Premier League vultures are already circling over the troubled club.

And manager Cook, who has led the Latics to the League One title and to the FA Cup last eight since taking over in 2017, is viewed as a potentiall­y ideal successor for Dyche.

The Clarets manager is unhappy with his transfer kitty for the next window and also the club’s failure to extend a number of contracts for the final month of Project Restart.

There is growing talk he

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