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17 September 2026 Off

Chelsea: Clearlake Capital acquires full control as Todd Boehly, Mark Walter and Hansjorg Wyss sell stakes

By Total Football News

Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly and director Mark Walter have sold their stakes in the club to majority owner Clearlake Capital.

Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss has also sold his stake, meaning Clearlake – led by co-founders Behdad Eghbali and Jose E. Feliciano – have now acquired full control of the club.

Boehly, Walter and Wyss each had a 12.8% stake, with Clearlake previously owning 61.5% of the Blues.

American Boehly will

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5 August 2026 Off

Will Lankshear: Middlesbrough striker full of praise for Hellberg

By Total Football News

Middlesbrough’s new striker Will Lankshear said he has learned more in a week under head coach Kim Hellberg than he has in his entire football career previously.

The 21-year-old signed from Tottenham two weeks ago after spending last season on loan at Oxford United, where he scored 11 goals and provided four assists in 44 Championship games.

Lankshear played his first game for what he described as an “amazing, brilliant

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12 April 2026 Off

Stoke City opinion: Does a full rebuild lie ahead for Potters?

By Total Football News

Everything about this game screamed April.

The wind blew a gale while the sun shone and the rain poured and a huge rainbow wrapped around the stadium.

Amongst all of that Stoke played a game that felt meaningless but did shine a light on how much there is to address this summer.

Of the team that started, Gavin Bazunu, Ashley Phillips and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi are on loan, Lewis Baker is

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16 February 2026 Off

Blackburn Rovers: Opinion – New manager bounce in full force at Rovers

By Total Football News

If there’s such a thing as a ‘new manager bounce’, this was as good an example as you’re likely to see.

This was a meeting of a side harbouring play-off ambitions against one that was struggling to lift the ever-increasing gloom, to create chances, never mind goals. The result – an away win, the visitors scoring three times in a game for only the second time this season.

This was

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3 November 2025 Off

Rob Edwards: Middlesbrough boss has ‘full focus’ on side amid Wolves links

By Total Football News

Middlesbrough boss Rob Edwards says he understands why he has been linked with the managerial vacancy at Premier League strugglers Wolverhampton Wanderers, but is concentrating solely on Tuesday’s game against Leicester.

Edwards, 42, made 100 league appearances for Wolves between 2004 and 2008 and has held various coaching roles at the club since.

The winless West Midlands side sacked boss Vitor Pereira on Sunday and are eight points adrift of

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1 November 2025 Off

Unai Emery: Aston Villa go “from black and white to full colour” in three years

By Total Football News

On 6 November 2022 a packed house at Villa Park exploded with joy as Aston Villa beat Manchester United on home soil for the first time since 1995.

A dream debut for new head coach Unai Emery, less than a week after the work permit hurdles that delayed his appointment had finally been cleared.

There had been fleeting moments of joy in the past but, for many years, never anything

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25 September 2025 Off

Blackburn Rovers v Ipswich Town to be replayed in full after abandonment

By Total Football News

Blackburn had won twice in six games in all competitions heading into Saturday’s fixture. A victory would have given them a third win in four games, and moved them to 11th place in the Championship table rather than their current position of 18th.

Ipswich, who have had an inconsistent return to the second tier after relegation from the Premier League, have won once this season, with one defeat and three

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3 March 2025 Off

Coventry City: Ephron Mason-Clark says Sky Blues are full of belief

By Total Football News

Ephron Mason-Clarke admits Coventry are “up there to be shot at” after climbing to fifth in the Championship but says the Sky Blues believe in themselves.

City’s eighth win in nine league games saw them rise to their highest position this season, with 11 games to go.

In just his second start since missing eight games through injury, Mason-Clark put Coventry 2-1 up in a crazy 18-minute second-half spell at

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18 February 2025 Off

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By Total Football News

Don’t Go To Bed Just Yet: Leeds United. Farke full of praise for ‘baller’ Rothwell. Audio, 19 minutesDon’t Go To Bed Just Yet: Leeds UnitedFarke full of praise for ‘baller’ Rothwell

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