defender Liam Cooper’s move to Bulgaria relied heavily on former Celtic star Stiliyan Petrov, according to CSKA Sofia technical director Filip Filipov.
The 33-year-old completed a shock move to CSKA after ten years at Leeds United and will become the first Scot at the club since Tony Watt was there for six months in 2019.
Cooper was introduced to Bulgarian fans in a video where he drove a Mini Cooper car with a voiceover stating, ‘Legendary, classy, aggressive, emblematic, Cooper, Liam Cooper. We’re switching gears.’
And Filipov revealed they enlisted the help of Bulgarian legend Petrov to make the move happen.
