Tag: confirms

29 September 2026 Off

Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches

By Total Football News

Richard Masters, chief executive of the Premier League, said: “The core decision establishes the facts of what happened at Manchester City during this period. It details how the club systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade.

“It also vindicates the Premier League’s decision to pursue this case against Manchester City. While the process to date has been both long and difficult, the League has remained determined that

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13 December 2025 Off

Mohamed Salah: Liverpool forward a target for Saudi clubs, confirms league chief

By Total Football News

“For sure Salah is one of them [a target].”

There have been reports Salah, who signed a two-year contract extension in April, could leave the Anfield club in January.

Saudi interest in Salah has long been known, with a reported £150m bid from Al-Ittihad rejected by Liverpool in September 2023, but this is the first time a league official has gone on the record about the player since his

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17 October 2025 Off

Bristol City CEO confirms club held takeover talks with Turki Alalshikh

By Total Football News

Alalshikh, 44, is a Saudi Arabian government official who is among the most influential people in boxing and has previously owned football clubs in Spain and Egypt.

City fall under the Bristol Sport umbrella which also comprises the Bristol Bears men’s and women’s rugby union teams and Bristol Flyers basketball.

It also included the women’s football team until it was sold in September to American investment group Mercury13.

“It’s no

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9 May 2025 Off

Erling Haaland ‘ready and fit’ to return from injury, Pep Guardiola confirms

By Total Football News

In an interview with ESPN, external this week, Haaland said City’s disappointing season after a run of four consecutive league titles was due to a loss of “hunger” in the squad.

“You can find excuses, injuries, many injuries at bad times, but in the end we haven’t been performing well enough,” Haaland said.

“We haven’t had fully the hunger inside us. I haven’t been good enough. I haven’t helped

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27 March 2025 Off

Club World Cup: Premier League confirms split transfer window for summer of 2025

By Total Football News

The Premier League has announced it will have two transfer windows this summer to allow Manchester City and Chelsea to sign players before the Club World Cup.

The window will open between Sunday, 1 June and Tuesday, 10 June, then close for five days before running again from Monday, 16 June until Monday, 1 September.

This summer features the first expanded Fifa Club World Cup, which involves 32 teams and

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17 May 2024 0

Arne Slot confirms he will replace Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool boss

By Total Football News

Feyenoord coach Arne Slot has confirmed he will replace Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager.

Klopp has been in charge of the Reds since October 2015 but is leaving at the end of the season after a reign that has seen him win the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and two EFL Cups.

After Klopp’s announcement in January several managers were considered leading contenders, but in April BBC Sport learned

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25 April 2024 0

Liverpool: Feyenoord boss Arne Slot confirms he wants Anfield job

By Total Football News

It is believed that the attacking style of Slot’s teams, his personality and his ability to develop players are key factors in making him Liverpool’s preferred candidate.

He took over as Feyenoord manager in 2021 and confirmed his interest in managing in the Premier League when he was linked with Spurs in 2023.

Xabi Alonso was linked with the Anfield vacancy but announced in March that he would remain with

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20 March 2024 0

EFL confirms Championship, League One & League Two final-day and play-off schedules

By Total Football News
Rob Edwards kisses the Championship play-off final winners' trophy
Luton Town won the 2022-23 Championship play-off final under Rob Edwards

Details for the final day of the Championship, League One and League Two campaigns – as well as the play-offs schedule – have been confirmed by the English Football League.

The final round of League One matches will start at 12:30 BST on Saturday, 27 April, with League Two at 15:00.

The regular Championship season will end the following

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