Tag: clubs

11 April 2024 0

Semi-automated offside technology approved by clubs for 2024-25 season

By Total Football News
Offside
Semi-automated offside technology was trialled at the Arab Cup and Club World Cup in 2021

Premier League clubs have approved unanimously the use of semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) for the 2024-25 season.

The plan is to introduce the system after one of the international breaks in September or October, the Premier League said.

Fifa first used the technology at the 2022 men’s World Cup in Qatar.

It is anticipated SAOT

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4 April 2024 0

Premier League clubs’ £1bn of losses in 11 charts

By Total Football News

It has been called “the season of asterisks” but, with Premier League charges and points deductions dominating the news agenda, understanding football finances has become crucial for fans.

Everton and Nottingham Forest’s rule breaches off the pitch could have a big say in the relegation battle on it, while Wolves, Aston Villa and Leicester have posted eye-watering losses in recent weeks.

With the help of football finance expert Kieran Maguire

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25 March 2024 0

Norwich City: Stuart Webber comments about black players ‘do not reflect club’s views’

By Total Football News
Stuart Webber became Norwich sporting director after leaving Huddersfield Town
Stuart Webber became Norwich sporting director after leaving Huddersfield Town

Norwich City say comments by former sporting director Stuart Webber about five black players “do not in any way reflect the wider views” of the club.

Webber said in a newspaper interview that Raheem Sterling, Abu Kamara, Jonathan Rowe, Max Aarons and Jamal Lewis might have ended up “in jail” had they not become footballers.

His comment was widely condemned.

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20 March 2024 0

Chelsea fans have ‘significant concerns’ about club’s future, says supporters group

By Total Football News
Todd Boehly
Chelsea have outspent their Premier League rivals by hundreds of millions of pounds since Todd Boehly took over as owner

Chelsea Supporters Trust says fans have “significant concerns” about the club’s future in a lengthy letter to co-owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali.

It says feeling among fans is at its lowest since the early 1980s and is close to “irreversible toxicity”.

Despite a record outlay on players since the

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12 March 2024 0

Premier League clubs accused of ’empty promise’ on EFL funding

By Total Football News
The Premier League trophy
The plan for an independent regulator in English football was recommended by a fan-led review in 2022

Premier League clubs have been accused of making an “empty promise” about a new funding deal for the English Football League (EFL).

A meeting between clubs on Monday ended without an agreement on a ‘New Deal’.

Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport committee, accused clubs of “parking the bus”.

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