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Craig Bellamy to stay with Wales as Burnley move falls through
25 June 2026 Off

Craig Bellamy to stay with Wales as Burnley move falls through

By Total Football News

Wales manager Craig Bellamy’s proposed move to take charge at Championship side Burnley has fallen through.

The Clarets approached the Football Association of Wales with a view to appointing Bellamy as Scott Parker’s successor.

The 46-year-old had talks with the Lancashire club but the move now looks to have collapsed.

The breakdown is understood to not be related to compensation for the FAW, while negotiations for Bellamy’s backroom staff to

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Wales boss Craig Bellamy in talks over Burnley job
24 June 2026 Off

Wales boss Craig Bellamy in talks over Burnley job

By Total Football News

Wales manager Craig Bellamy is in advanced talks with Burnley over becoming their new head coach ahead of next season.

The Clarets have approached the Football Association of Wales with a view to appointing Bellamy as Scott Parker’s successor, with the 46-year-old now understood to be in contract talks with the Championship side.

While a final agreement is yet to be reached, talks have accelerated in the last 48 hours

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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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Celtic: No Kieran McKenna talks as Craig Bellamy commits to Wales
31 October 2025 Off

Celtic: No Kieran McKenna talks as Craig Bellamy commits to Wales

By Total Football News

It has been suggested that McKenna would be open to speaking to Celtic given his boyhood allegiances.

“Growing up, we all have our affinities,” he said when asked about those. “I don’t think everyone has to go around and announce what they were, but of course it’s a really big football club.”

McKenna signed a new four-year contract in 2024 and was asked about his reported £5m release clause.

“In

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Preston: Chairman Craig Hemmings stands down as club seeks new investment
11 October 2025 Off

Preston: Chairman Craig Hemmings stands down as club seeks new investment

By Total Football News

Hemmings succeeded his late father, Trevor, when becoming Preston’s chairman in June 2019.

Since then, they have continually remained in the Championship. They finished between ninth and 13th for five straight campaigns, but only survived relegation on the final day of last season with a 20th-placed finish.

However, after an extensive summer of rebuilding under manager Paul Heckingbottom, they have the most expensively-assembled squad in the club’s history and currently

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Craig Forsyth: Veteran Derby County defender signs two-year deal
23 June 2025 Off

Craig Forsyth: Veteran Derby County defender signs two-year deal

By Total Football News

Craig Forsyth has signed a new two-year deal with Derby County, which will keep the defender at the Rams for a 14th season and see him play for them beyond his 38th birthday.

The Scot has made 382 appearances in 12 years with the East Midlands club.

Forsyth initially moved to Pride Park on loan from Watford in March 2013 before making the switch permanent later that year.

Forsyth was

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Coventry City: Kai Andrews could be ‘huge asset’ – Craig Bellamy
20 March 2025 Off

Coventry City: Kai Andrews could be ‘huge asset’ – Craig Bellamy

By Total Football News

Wales boss Craig Bellamy has singled out Coventry City midfielder Kai Andrews as a player with “high potential” and hopes international duty will help develop the teenager.

Having rose through the Sky Blues youth ranks, Andrews earned his maiden call-up to Wales’ senior team after impressing during his current loan spell with Scottish Premiership side Motherwell.

Andrews, who is yet to start for Coventry, has made seven appearances for Motherwell

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Derby County: Ex-Ram Craig Bryson on former teammate John Eustace
14 February 2025 Off

Derby County: Ex-Ram Craig Bryson on former teammate John Eustace

By Total Football News

I’m not sure I’d ever imagined Eusty being the manager of Derby, but the way he came across off the pitch and the way he spoke, you could always see him being a coach or a manager. You could see him going down that route.

I wouldn’t say he was loud in the changing room, but when he spoke, he spoke sense and with the authority that everyone would listen

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Everton 4-0 Wolves: Ashley Young, Orel Mangala and Craig Dawson’s two own goals pile pressure on Gary O’Neil
5 December 2024 Off

Everton 4-0 Wolves: Ashley Young, Orel Mangala and Craig Dawson’s two own goals pile pressure on Gary O’Neil

By Total Football News

Everton’s final season at Goodison Park seemed to be turning sour, with the team last winning and scoring in October to leave them teetering above the bottom three.

A goal shortage has been the main issue, failing to score with their last 69 shots before this game, and their 10 goals ranked as the fewest by any team in the top flight this season.

But Everton put that statistic

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Burnley: Craig Bellamy named acting head coach of the Clarets
3 June 2024 Off

Burnley: Craig Bellamy named acting head coach of the Clarets

By Total Football News

Craig Bellamy will take temporary charge of Burnley following the departure of Vincent Kompany.

Belgian Kompany has joined Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich as head coach after Burnley’s relegation to the Championship.

The Clarets say they are “actively searching” for a permanent replacement but have made former Liverpool and Newcastle forward Bellamy acting head coach in the meantime.

Welshman Bellamy, 44, was assistant manager under Kompany at Anderlecht before joining the

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