Tag: boss

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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Mark Robins: Stoke City boss backed by sporting director Jonathan Walters
22 June 2026 Off

Mark Robins: Stoke City boss backed by sporting director Jonathan Walters

By Total Football News

When he was appointed in January 2025, Robins became the club’s seventh permanent manager since relegation from the Premier League in 2018.

Unlike many sides to fall out of the top flight, and despite a healthy budget, the Potters have failed to challenge for promotion in any season since the drop, with a highest finish of 14th.

Hopes were high last October when they were second after 14 games, but

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Craig Bellamy: Burnley want Wales’ head coach as new boss
19 June 2026 Off

Craig Bellamy: Burnley want Wales’ head coach as new boss

By Total Football News

“Everything’s in place, I get completely backed and it’s going to give me the opportunity in the next two years to improve again,” Bellamy said before his side’s 1-1 draw with Ghana in Cardiff on 2 June.

“Links? I understand it but I don’t look too far. I love what I have here.

“I’ve been offered that elsewhere as well, but I have this here already.

“Wales gave me this

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Watford: Your Opinions of new boss Alessio Dionisi’s appointment
17 June 2026 Off

Watford: Your Opinions of new boss Alessio Dionisi’s appointment

By Total Football News

We asked you what you thought of Watford’s appointment of new boss Alessio Dionisi.

Here is a selection of what you had to say:

Matt: He will be gone by the first international break. Until Gino Pozzo wakes up, realises that the problem is him and the people that run the club, we will never move forward.

Martin: If you throw enough darts at the board eventually you must hit

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Michael Skubala: Bristol City job ‘perfect timing’ for ex-Lincoln boss
12 June 2026 Off

Michael Skubala: Bristol City job ‘perfect timing’ for ex-Lincoln boss

By Total Football News

Bristol City manager Michael Skubala says it was the right time to move to Ashton Gate after clinching promotion to the Championship with Lincoln City.

Skubala led the Imps to the League One title last season despite having one of the smallest budgets in the division, but will start next season in the dugout with the Robins.

Speaking to BBC Radio Bristol, he said he was looking forward to a

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Kenny Jackett: BBC Radio Solent remember former Portsmouth boss
12 June 2026 Off

Kenny Jackett: BBC Radio Solent remember former Portsmouth boss

By Total Football News

Kenny Jackett arrived at Fratton Park at a strange time.

The club had just won promotion from League Two but manager Paul Cook had walked away to join Wigan Athletic.

Michael Eisner’s purchase of the club from the Pompey Supporters Trust was being completed. The League Two promotion side was breaking up, with key players Enda Stevens and Michael Doyle having already departed.

For the first 18 months, Jackett did

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Russell Martin: Leicester City in talks with former Southampton boss
11 June 2026 Off

Russell Martin: Leicester City in talks with former Southampton boss

By Total Football News

Leicester City are in talks with former Rangers and Southampton boss Russell Martin over their vacant manager’s position.

Martin, 40, has been out of work since being sacked by Scottish Premiership giants Rangers in October.

BBC Radio Leicester understands the club’s hierarchy have interviewed Martin as part of an ongoing process to find a replacement for Gary Rowett.

Rowett took charge in February, shortly after a six-point deduction for a

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John Mousinho: Portsmouth fans should want boss to stay, says Ian Darke
2 June 2026 Off

John Mousinho: Portsmouth fans should want boss to stay, says Ian Darke

By Total Football News

“Promotion as League One champions, staying up – kind of against the odds – two seasons running, particularly this last season when your main contributor in terms of creation, Josh Murphy, missed 22 Championship games and Colby Bishop had an off year.

“There were injuries as well, many of them, and yet Pompey still stayed up pretty comfortably.”

“It would be crazy if anyone wanted to get rid of John

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