Tag: Alex

11 January 2025 Off

Alex Matos: Chelsea loan England youth prospect to Oxford United

By Total Football News

Championship club Oxford United have signed England Under-20 midfielder Alex Matos on loan from Chelsea for the rest of the season.

Matos, 20, made his Chelsea debut against Fulham in the Premier League in October 2023 and was a regular starter in the second tier after joining Huddersfield Town on loan in January.

“Alex has a great pedigree as a player and I was impressed with what he showed last

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3 January 2025 Off

Alex Iwobi: Nigeria midfielder says Fulham squad is ‘one big brotherhood’

By Total Football News

Iwobi says Fulham boss Marco Silva has created a “sense of togetherness” that is empowering the squad and bringing out the best in him.

“I feel like [I am] just expressing myself a bit more,” said the former Arsenal and Everton man.

“The manager gives me that license and freedom to try and get into more goalscoring opportunities. Even if I make a mistake he says: ‘Alex, go again.’

“Having

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2 January 2025 Off

Hull City 0-1 Middlesbrough: Alex Gilbert scores late Boro winner

By Total Football News

Hull City boss Ruben Selles told BBC Radio Humberside:

“That [goal] being in the last seconds is hard to take. It hurts because if you cannot win it – and sometimes it happens like that – then you don’t lose it at the very end.

“It was a game that didn’t look like it was going to be for us, but we need to learn to at least get that

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31 December 2024 Off

Alex Neil: No wholesale overnight changes for new Millwall boss

By Total Football News

There will be no immediate changes at Millwall, says new head coach Alex Neil.

The former Norwich and Sunderland boss has been appointed on a “long-term contract” at The Den, replacing Neil Harris who left the club earlier this month.

“It’s as thorough a recruitment process as I’ve ever been through,” Neil told the Millwall website., external

“It was about me trying to paint my vision for the club

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30 December 2024 Off

Alex Neil: Millwall appoint ex-Preston, Sunderland and Stoke boss

By Total Football News

The Lions were 11th in the Championship and had not won in their previous four games when Harris, who returned in February for a second stint in charge of the club, announced he would leave earlier in December.

Since then they impressively ended play-off chasing Blackburn Rovers’ six-game winning run before being defeated 2-1 by Norwich on Boxing Day.

Neil takes over a mid-table club that has won just once

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22 October 2024 Off

Manchester United: ‘Chaos’ at Old Trafford goes back to Sir Alex Ferguson departure – Patrice Evra

By Total Football News

Five-time Premier League winner Patrice Evra says the future at Manchester United is “not bright”, with his old club having been “in a chaos” for more than a decade.

The Old Trafford side last won the league title in 2013, their last season under legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson, and sit 12th in the table under current boss Erik ten Hag.

Evra left a year after Ferguson and the former

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15 October 2024 Off

Sir Alex Ferguson: Former Manchester United boss to step away from club ambassador duties

By Total Football News

Sir Alex Ferguson will leave his role as Manchester United ambassador at the end of the season.

Ferguson has been paid a multi-million pound sum by United since his retirement as manager in 2013.

During that period the 82-year-old has acted as a global ambassador and club director. He has been a regular at games and retains a seat in the directors’ box.

Club sources say Ferguson, United’s most successful

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16 September 2024 Off

Alex Mowatt says Carlos Corberan will not let West Brom standards drop

By Total Football News

Mowatt’s double equalled the number of goals he scored in the whole of last season and included his first goal from open play for nearly a year.

“I don’t think I’ve scored two since I was 19 at Leeds,” Mowatt, who scored 13 times in three-and-a-half years at the Yorkshire club, said.

“I didn’t score enough last season and I want to be scoring a lot more regularly. Hopefully

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22 August 2024 Off

Nottingham Forest sign Alex Moreno from Aston Villa on season-long loan

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest have signed Aston Villa left-back Alex Moreno on loan for the rest of the season, with an option for a permanent deal.

The Spaniard, 31, had fallen behind behind new signing Ian Maatsen and Lucas Digne in the pecking order at Villa Park.

Moreno joined Villa from La Liga side Real Betis in January 2023 in a £13.2m deal and was Unai Emery’s first signing, having previously been

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7 August 2024 Off

Alex Robertson: Cardiff sign Manchester City midfielder

By Total Football News

Robertson was entering the final year of his contract at the Premier League champions.

Cardiff were optimistic of signing Robertson last week, when Bulut said he was an “interesting” player.

But Portsmouth were very keen to attract the player back to Fratton Park, where he had a successful loan season in 2023-24, making 23 appearances and scoring a goal before injury ended his season in January.

Roberton’s acquisition will mean

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