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Hull City 2-0 Manchester United: Assistant Dean Holden on back five tactic
24 August 2026 Off

Hull City 2-0 Manchester United: Assistant Dean Holden on back five tactic

By Total Football News

Hull City boss Sergej Jakirovic kept his plan to topple Manchester United on the Tigers’ Premier League return under wraps for weeks, assistant head coach Dean Holden told Match of the Day.

Jakirovic’s side produced a sensational 2-0 opening-weekend win over Michael Carrick’s side on Saturday while deploying a back five.

Hull were making their first Premier League appearance in nine years after coming up through the play-offs last season.

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West Bromwich Albion: Matt Gill staying as assistant boss as Gavin Strachan joins
23 June 2026 Off

West Bromwich Albion: Matt Gill staying as assistant boss as Gavin Strachan joins

By Total Football News

West Bromwich Albion have confirmed Matt Gill will be staying as assistant head coach to boss James Morrison and added Celtic first-team coach Gavin Strachan and former Middlesbrough defender Tony McMahon to the coaching staff.

Gill joined up with the Baggies for the last 11 fixtures of 2025-26, as they went on to secure their Championship survival off the back of a 10-game unbeaten run.

Strachan, 47, has been with

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Ian Burchnall: Bristol City name assistant manager to Michael Skubala
19 June 2026 Off

Ian Burchnall: Bristol City name assistant manager to Michael Skubala

By Total Football News

Bristol City have appointed former Notts County and Forest Green Rovers boss Ian Burchnall as their assistant manager.

Burchnall joins new head coach Michael Skubala’s team having most recently worked under interim boss Peter Leven at Aberdeen last season.

The 43-year-old spent just over a year at Notts County and was in charge of Forest Green for eight months during their spell in League One during 2022-23.

He has managed

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Mark Robins: Stoke manager says he wants to give ‘time’ for his search for a new assistant
20 February 2026 Off

Mark Robins: Stoke manager says he wants to give ‘time’ for his search for a new assistant

By Total Football News

The positive news for Stoke has been a move into “awesome” new facilities at their Clayton Wood training ground.

Robins will hope the £10 million investment by chairman John Coates can have a impact on the club’s growing injury list, with defender Bosun Lawal, goalkeeper Viktor Johansson and forward Divin Mubama among those currently sidelined.

“It is awesome,” he said. “But it comes with strings attached. The investment has been

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Ben Garner: Southampton appoint ex-Charlton boss as assistant head coach
4 January 2026 Off

Ben Garner: Southampton appoint ex-Charlton boss as assistant head coach

By Total Football News

Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert has added former Charlton Athletic boss Ben Garner to his coaching team.

Garner, 45, moves to St Mary’s as Eckert’s first-team assistant coach, completing the German’s backroom staff that already includes Jeremy Newton and Ben Reeves, as well as goalkeeper coach Ryan Flood and analyst Albert Jones.

Garner, a former Crystal Palace assistant who has previously managed Bristol Rovers and Swindon, last worked in English

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Zigor Aranalde: Watford assistant says foul in build-up to Wrexham goal
14 December 2025 Off

Zigor Aranalde: Watford assistant says foul in build-up to Wrexham goal

By Total Football News

Watford assistant boss Zigor Aranalde said the referee had made a clear mistake in the build-up to Wrexham’s added-time equaliser, resulting in a red card being shown to head coach Javi Gracia.

Ollie Rathbone’s 92nd-minute goal denied The Hornets three points in north Wales on Saturday as the Championship game ended 2-2, but Aranalde said the game should have been stopped for a foul prior to the corner which led

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Sheffield United: Ex-Forest assistant Ramos takes Blades coaching role
27 September 2025 Off

Sheffield United: Ex-Forest assistant Ramos takes Blades coaching role

By Total Football News

Former Nottingham Forest assistant manager Guilherme Ramos has joined Sheffield United as their new first-team coach.

He is the newest addition to the Blades backroom staff following the managerial return of Chris Wilder alongside long-time staff members Alan Knill and Matt Prestridge.

“As I said to the media when I returned, I was keen to use the opportunity to try and freshen up the coaching side. Guilherme is someone I’ve

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Dean Holden: Hull City recruit ex-Charlton boss as assistant coach
2 July 2025 Off

Dean Holden: Hull City recruit ex-Charlton boss as assistant coach

By Total Football News

Former Charlton Athletic and Bristol City manager Dean Holden has joined Hull City as assistant head coach.

He will work with new head coach Sergej Jakirovic, the Bosnian who has taken over at the Tigers this summer.

Holden’s most recent post was as assistant manager at Adana Demirspor in Turkey, while he also worked under Steven Gerrard at Al-Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia.

Having been working in the Turkish Super

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Paul Trollope: Southampton appoint former Luton coach as assistant head coach
25 June 2025 Off

Paul Trollope: Southampton appoint former Luton coach as assistant head coach

By Total Football News

Former Luton Town assistant coach Paul Trollope has joined Southampton as assistant manager to new boss Will Still.

Trollope most recently worked at Luton as assistant manager to Rob Edwards and has previously had coaching spells at Nottingham Forest and Brighton.

He also worked on the Wales coaching staff when they reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016.

Adam Lallana will also continue his role from last season as first team

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Manchester City: Pep Lijnders is Pep Guardiola’s new assistant
10 June 2025 Off

Manchester City: Pep Lijnders is Pep Guardiola’s new assistant

By Total Football News

They helped Jurgen Klopp mastermind Liverpool’s Champions League and Premier League triumphs and go toe-to-toe with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City in one of the Premier League’s great rivalries.

Now after finishing without a trophy for the first time since 2017, Guardiola has recruited Pepijn Lijnders and James French to his backroom team as part of a rebuild at Etihad Stadium.

Lijnders, who was Klopp’s number two for the second half

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