Tag: failed

5 October 2026 Off

Morgan Rogers: Why £117m Chelsea star failed at Bournemouth

By Total Football News

“I don’t think there’s such a thing as a bad loan,” Rogers’ first loan manager at Lincoln City, Michael Appleton, told BBC Sport.

Appleton had worked in West Brom’s academy and knew Rogers was one of the most highly rated prospects there. He made it his mission to bring him to Sincil Bank in League One.

He remembers Rogers having a big personality and speaking up in team meetings despite

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12 September 2026 Off

Chelsea news: Lamine Camara moves on from failed £47.1m move from Monaco

By Total Football News

Monaco midfielder Lamine Camara says he has “turned the page” and is focusing on the Ligue 1 season after his £47.1m move to Chelsea collapsed.

The 22-year-old had completed a medical but the deal fell through shortly before the transfer window closed.

Two bids had already been rejected, but Monaco lowered their asking price in a turbulent end to the window when it looked likely that Folarin Balogun’s move to

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26 August 2026 Off

Ismaila Sarr: Liverpool explore move after failed Yankuba Minteh bids

By Total Football News

Liverpool are exploring a move for Crystal Palace‘s Ismaila Sarr after Brighton rejected their two bids for Yankuba Minteh.

The Anfield club had offers of £50m and £60m for Minteh, 22, turned down by Brighton and have now switched their attention to Sarr, who scored 21 goals last season for Palace.

Like Minteh, Sarr is a right-sided winger and has Premier League experience but the understanding is that Palace

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3 June 2026 Off

Can Lincoln City succeed where Liverpool experiment of joint-bosses failed?

By Total Football News

While Shaw has previous experience as a first-team boss, having had a spell as manager of non-league side Gainsborough Trinity, Cohen has spent his senior coaching career to date as an assistant at Luton Town, Southampton and Stoke City.

Before that, Cohen’s coaching career started with a stint as the under-23s manager at Nottingham Forest, the club where he retired as a player in 2018.

It is the years of

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17 October 2025 Off

Josh Wander: Co-founder of failed Everton bidder charged with $500m fraud

By Total Football News

The co-founder of investment firm 777 Partners – which made an unsuccessful bid to buy Premier League club Everton – has been charged with defrauding lenders and investors of more than $500 million (£372m).

Josh Wander, 44, lied and used fake financial documents to inflate the finances of 777, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors in the United States.

A potential deal for 777 to acquire the Toffees fell through in

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9 May 2024 0

Nottingham Forest: Nuno Espirito Santo ‘disappointed’ at failed points deduction appeal

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest have moved on despite disappointment that their appeal against a four-point deduction failed, says manager Nuno Espirito Santo.

Forest lost their appeal against breaching the Premier League’s profit and sustainability Rules (PSR) this week, with an independent three-person board upholding the original decision.

It means they remain in 17th place, three points above the relegation zone with two games to play.

“We were all disappointed. We had the

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