Tag: focused

16 April 2026 Off

Coventry City boss Frank Lampard focused with promotion one point away

By Total Football News

He added: “I think the Championship is a great league to to work in and to watch, especially with its unpredictability.

“The support bases, the sizes of the teams that are in it, and the different styles of play are great.”

Speaking about Blackburn, who were beaten 3-0 by in-form Southampton on Tuesday, Lampard said: “They are a team who are fighting.

“You can see they have good players and

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27 February 2026 Off

West Bromwich Albion: James Morrison returns to interim role focused on job at hand

By Total Football News

The failure of former Manchester United coach Ramsay, 34, who was without a win in his nine games in charge, has drawn sharp criticism from fans and raised questions over the wisdom of appointing a manager with no direct experience of the Championship or the English Football League.

Morrison said the situation that Ramsay walked into – with the club having lost 10 away games in a row and sitting

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20 February 2026 Off

Gary Rowett: New Leicester manager focused on climbing Championship table

By Total Football News

New Leicester City head coach Gary Rowett says he won’t let the club’s off-field issues distract him from the task of keeping the team in the Championship.

Former Foxes defender Rowett, 51, was appointed on Wednesday, less than 24 hours before Leicester launched an appeal against a six-point deduction that has left them in the relegation zone.

“That’s the club’s concern, that’s out of our hands,” Rowett said.

“My remit

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30 November 2025 Off

Marti Cifuentes: Under-pressure Leicester boss focused on form not club’s legal case

By Total Football News

There have been optimistic moments in the early months of the season, with Cifuentes pointing to back-to-back wins against Norwich City and Stoke earlier in November.

There was even “encouraging things” in the second half against Sheffield United as they pulled two goals back from 3-0 down – through Stephy Mavididi and Jordan James – to set up a tense finish.

Cifuentes, though, admitted “the bar wasn’t very high” after

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20 November 2025 Off

QPR: Julien Stephan focused on developing set-piece threat

By Total Football News

Boss Julien Stephan is focused on set-pieces as he tries to halt QPR’s slide down the Championship table.

Ahead of Saturday’s visit of Hull City (15:00 GMT) QPR are winless in their past four games in the Championship, taking a single point, scoring just two goals, and have slipped to 16th, having been sixth in early October.

Stephan told BBC Radio London it had been “important to refresh mentally and

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25 June 2025 Off

Sheff Wed: Ex-owner Milan Mandaric no longer ‘focused’ on Owls return

By Total Football News

Mandaric had hoped to meet Chansiri during a brief visit to the UK this week, but the current Wednesday owner is not in the country.

And on reflection, Mandaric, who also owned Portsmouth and Leicester City before Wednesday, does not believe that he could devote sufficient time to “return the club to the healthy condition I left it in”.

He also believes that with other parties involved, his potential interest

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1 April 2025 Off

Liverpool: Trent Alexander-Arnold ‘focused on recovery’ not future, says Arne Slot

By Total Football News

Liverpool manager Arne Slot says defender Trent Alexander-Arnold is “fully focused” on returning to fitness following reports that he in talks to join Real Madrid.

BBC Sport understands that Alexander-Arnold, who is out of contract at the end of the season, is in advanced talks with Real Madrid over a free transfer to the Bernabeu.

The full-back missed England’s World Cup qualifiers against Albania and Latvia after sustaining an ankle

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7 March 2025 Off

John Eustace focused on Derby’s lofty ambitions over Blackburn Rovers reunion

By Total Football News

On his arrival at Derby three weeks ago, Eustace admitted he was taking a “huge risk” by parachuting down the division to take charge of a club where he retired as a player a decade earlier.

When asked about what it feels like facing Blackburn so soon after his departure, Eustace replied by saying his “focus” will be on Derby while acknowledging that he had a “fantastic time” at Ewood

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20 December 2024 Off

Oxford United: Gary Rowett focused on keeping U’s in Championship

By Total Football News

News of Buckingham’s sacking was met with plenty of criticism from U’s fans.

Many felt sorry for the 39-year-old who had local links to the area and got the club promoted to the second tier of English football for the first time in a quarter of a century after winning the League One play-off final at Wembley.

“I’m really respectful of the fact that Des was a really popular guy,”

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13 December 2024 Off

Manchester United: Ruben Amorim says side are focused ‘on own problems’ not Man City’s struggles

By Total Football News

Ruben Amorim says Manchester United are focused on their “own problems” rather the struggles of rivals Manchester City before Sunday’s derby at Etihad Stadium.

Premier League champions City have won just one of their last 10 matches in all competitions, seven of those defeats, and dropped to fourth place and eight points behind leaders Liverpool, who also have a game in hand.

Amorim has won three of his six matches

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