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Man Utd boss Michael Carrick remaining in charge vs Bournemouth amid growing concerns at Old Trafford | Football News
22 October 2026 Off

Man Utd boss Michael Carrick remaining in charge vs Bournemouth amid growing concerns at Old Trafford | Football News

By Total Football News

Michael Carrick will be in charge of Manchester United against Bournemouth on Sunday, but there is growing concern among club bosses about the team’s poor run of form.

There is a feeling both inside and outside Old Trafford that Sunday’s Premier League match could be pivotal in determining Carrick’s future.

No decision has been taken about plans beyond Sunday as things stand following the 4-1 defeat to Como in the

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Wolves: Wolves dismiss Rob Edwards after seven months in charge at Molineux
11 June 2026 Off

Wolves: Wolves dismiss Rob Edwards after seven months in charge at Molineux

By Total Football News

Wolves have sacked head coach Rob Edwards after just seven months following their relegation from the Premier League.

The club had previously put on a united front and insisted they were behind the 43-year-old, appointed last November.

Cesar Peixoto, who guided Gil Vicente to sixth place in Portugal’s Primeira Liga during the season just completed, has been linked with the job at Molineux.

Edwards’ assistants Harry Watling and Paul Trollope

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Ed Still: Watford head coach sacked after less that three months in charge
3 May 2026 Off

Ed Still: Watford head coach sacked after less that three months in charge

By Total Football News

This has been inevitable for quite a few weeks, and the announcement comes as no surprise. No matter what would have happened against Coventry yesterday (and it was another abject performance) Still was on his way.

In the past two months the results have been awful, the performances dreadful and tactically the Hornets have lacked structure and recognised game-plan.

The players have looked fed up as well – morale, confidence,

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Marti Cifuentes: Leicester City sack manager after just six months in charge
25 January 2026 Off

Marti Cifuentes: Leicester City sack manager after just six months in charge

By Total Football News

Cifuentes left QPR to take over at the Foxes and the demands and expectation on him were high from the outset, with this season marking the 10-year anniversary of their stunning Premier League title win of 2016.

When Cifuentes was named as Ruud van Nistelrooy’s replacement in July, he spoke of wanting to bring a brand of “fearless” football back to the King Power.

There was a sense of that

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Wrexham game has ’emotional charge’ – Swansea boss Matos
17 December 2025 Off

Wrexham game has ’emotional charge’ – Swansea boss Matos

By Total Football News

Swansea City boss Vitor Matos says facing Welsh rivals Wrexham provides a different “emotional charge” compared to other Championship games.

The two sides face each other on Friday, 19 December at Swansea.com Stadium in the first league contest between the Swans and the Dragons since 2003 (20:00 GMT).

Despite a geographical distance over more than 100 miles between Swansea in south west Wales and Wrexham in the country’s north east,

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Swansea City: Darren O’Dea in charge as Vitor Matos bid stalls
22 November 2025 Off

Swansea City: Darren O’Dea in charge as Vitor Matos bid stalls

By Total Football News

Swansea, who are 18th in the Championship having won only one of their past seven league games, have given no indication as to how long the interim coaching team will remain at the helm.

Following the trip to Bristol City, the Swans host Derby County next Tuesday before visiting West Brom the following Saturday.

Swansea initially targeted Hellberg, but the Hammarby coach is set for second-placed Boro.

Former Liverpool coach

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Will Still: Southampton sack manager after five months in charge
2 November 2025 Off

Will Still: Southampton sack manager after five months in charge

By Total Football News

Two Championship wins this season have been accompanied with six draws and five defeats in the league for Saints, who were relegated from the top flight last season.

Those two victories came on the opening day of the season at home to Wrexham and away at Sheffield United on the final day of September.

After beating Northampton Town and Norwich City in the EFL Cup, they were knocked out of

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Reasons to be cheerful at last? Ruben Amorim’s year in charge at Man Utd
1 November 2025 Off

Reasons to be cheerful at last? Ruben Amorim’s year in charge at Man Utd

By Total Football News

Had Amorim’s one-year anniversary been marked on 1 October, judgement would have been almost exclusively negative.

At that point, only Tottenham of the 17 teams who remained in the Premier League throughout his tenure had fewer points than United’s 34 from 33 games. After three successive victories, Wolves and West Ham are also behind them now.

On Thursday, for the first time, Amorim was shortlisted for manager of the month.

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Ange Postecoglou: Nottingham Forest sack manager after just 39 days in charge
18 October 2025 Off

Ange Postecoglou: Nottingham Forest sack manager after just 39 days in charge

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest head coach Ange Postecoglou was sacked just 17 minutes after the side’s 3-0 defeat by Chelsea at the City Ground on Saturday.

The Australian’s dismissal – 39 days after his appointment on 9 September – means Postecoglou’s stint at Forest is the shortest permanent managerial reign in Premier League history.

The former Tottenham boss failed to win any of his eight matches in charge of Forest, with two

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Mykhailo Mudryk: Enzo Maresca yet to speak to player since FA charge
19 June 2025 Off

Mykhailo Mudryk: Enzo Maresca yet to speak to player since FA charge

By Total Football News

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca says he has yet to speak to Mykhailo Mudryk since the forward was charged with violating the Football Association’s anti-doping rules but insists the player retains the club’s support.

Ukraine international Mudryk, 24, was provisionally suspended by the FA in December after an “adverse finding in a routine urine test” and now faces a potential four-year ban.

Mudryk, who at the time of his suspension said

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