Sheffield Wednesday hold 'talks' with ex-Rotherham United boss Matt Hamshaw over coaching role
Sheffield Wednesday are said to have held talks with a former Rotherham United boss - and ex-Owl
Sheffield Wednesday have reportedly held talks with former Rotherham United boss Matt Hamshaw over a return to Hillsborough.
A midfielder back in his playing days, Hamshaw made 86 appearances for Wednesday between 2000 and 2005.
He went down the coaching route post-retirement and was part of Paul Warne’s backroom team at Rotherham and Derby County. After achieving promotion from League One on four occasions across those spells with Warne, Hamshaw struck out on his own when he landed the main Rotherham gig in 2025.
The 44-year-old was relieved of his duties in March with the Millers embroiled in a League One relegation battle, one they would go on to lose.
Sheffield Wednesday hold Matt Hamshaw ‘talks’
According to The Star, Hamshaw has now held talks with Wednesday over a role in Henrik Pedersen’s coaching team.
A gap in Pedersen’s team was opened earlier in the summer, when the highly-rated Craig Mudd left for a role at Manchester City.
Hamshaw would be joining Pete Shuttleworth, Giles Coke, Andy Holdsworth and Darryl Flahavan in the first-team coaching set-up at Hillsborough. The move would hold a clear emotional appeal for Hamshaw, as well as a geographical one.
He may also find the prospect of being involved in a push near the top end of League One appealing after a tough spell in the Rotherham dugout.
Matt Hamshaw’s Rotherham United exit
In March, after Hamshaw’s exit, Rotherham legend Ronnie Moore said: “Matt stayed in it and tried to do his best, which is hard as a manager. He’ll know deep down, the lads he’s had to put out on that field aren’t good enough. But what can you do?
“The three centre-backs for me, yesterday (Tuesday), awful, awful defending. But he’s lost his job. All of a sudden, I thought ‘was he doing it until the end of the season?’. And then, completely out of the blue, Lee Clark all of a sudden got a mention. Where did that come from?
“It might be a good thing, it might be a bad thing, nobody will know, but he’s got nine games to get the best he can out of the players he’s got, which I tell you now, won’t be easy.”