Tag: future

Euro 2024: Conor Gallagher only ‘focusing on England’ not Chelsea future
13 June 2024 Off

Euro 2024: Conor Gallagher only ‘focusing on England’ not Chelsea future

By Total Football News

Gallagher scored five Premier League goals last season and registered seven assists, featuring in 37 out of 38 league games under former boss Mauricio Pochettino.

Despite Chelsea ending the season strongly with five wins in a row to earn a sixth-placed finish, Pochettino departed and has been replaced by Enzo Maresca, who helped Leicester City win promotion back to the top flight.

All-action midfielder Gallagher said he was “sad”

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Przemyslaw Placheta: Winger could yet have Swansea City future
12 June 2024 Off

Przemyslaw Placheta: Winger could yet have Swansea City future

By Total Football News

Luke Williams says Przemyslaw Placheta could yet have a future at Swansea City despite being released by the Championship club last month.

Swansea announced in May that winger Placheta, who signed on a free transfer from Norwich City in January, was to depart at the end of his short-term contract.

But Placheta, 26, is being looked after by Swansea’s staff after suffering a significant hamstring injury in March.

Williams says

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Kevin de Bruyne: Manchester City star ‘open to everything’ including future Saudi Arabia transfer
4 June 2024 Off

Kevin de Bruyne: Manchester City star ‘open to everything’ including future Saudi Arabia transfer

By Total Football News

Manchester City’s Kevin de Bruyne has said he is “open to everything” as he discussed the possibility of a move to Saudi Arabia.

The Belgian playmaker, 32, has one year left on his contract at City where he has won six Premier League titles and the Champions League since joining in 2015.

De Bruyne said the “incredible” contracts on offer in the Saudi Pro League could be appealing towards the

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Man City title win: Fans tell BBC Sport what it means to them and their hopes for the future
21 May 2024 Off

Man City title win: Fans tell BBC Sport what it means to them and their hopes for the future

By Total Football News

Ellis: As a wheelchair user, I sit in the second tier of the Colin Bell Stand and at Champions League games we often have away fans sat in front of us. Some Real Madrid supporters told me “you guys have the best team in the world”. When you get that outside perspective you really appreciate how good the football we watch week in, week out is.

Emily: We don’t, because

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Roberto De Zerbi: Brighton chief Paul Barber on manager’s future & club success
15 May 2024 0

Roberto De Zerbi: Brighton chief Paul Barber on manager’s future & club success

By Total Football News

In an era of over-spending, Brighton are viewed as the gold standard for how to run a club properly.

They do owe Bloom £373m and paid their owner £36m out of a club record £122.8m profit announced last month. But Barber points out a large part of that debt was because of construction of the Amex Stadium.

The stadium’s capacity can be increased beyond its current 31,876, but “by hundreds

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Bristol City: Tommy Conway has ‘decision to make’ over future
14 May 2024 0

Bristol City: Tommy Conway has ‘decision to make’ over future

By Total Football News

Conway has been part of the Bristol City set-up since the age of seven and enjoyed a breakthrough campaign to the first team in the 2022-23 season.

Manning said he had had “numerous” discussions with Conway since he took over last November but accepted the decision was beyond his control.

“I think there’s real danger sometimes people jump too early,” Manning said.

“I think the biggest bit for me is

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Down but not out: Birmingham determined to not let relegation define their future
9 May 2024 0

Down but not out: Birmingham determined to not let relegation define their future

By Total Football News

There is an acceptance the club tried to run before they could walk.

John Eustace was always going to be removed, even he knew it, but chairman Tom Wagner admitted last month he got the timing wrong when replacing him with Wayne Rooney in October.

New owners Knighthead wanted their own man and went for Rooney, a global name to put them on the map, but Eustace offered stability and

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Mauricio Pochettino says ‘stupid rumours’ over future need to end
3 May 2024 0

Mauricio Pochettino says ‘stupid rumours’ over future need to end

By Total Football News

Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino says “stupid rumours” about his future need to end but admits he does not know if he and his staff will be at the club next season.

Pochettino, 52, signed a two-year contract with the option of a further year when he was appointed last May.

However, Chelsea have had an inconsistent season and their manager has had to deal with a number of injuries to

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Borussia Dortmund v PSG: Jadon Sancho’s future analysed
1 May 2024 0

Borussia Dortmund v PSG: Jadon Sancho’s future analysed

By Total Football News

What does the future hold?

Most fans are happy Sancho returned.

“We have had several players come back over the years but usually, it didn’t go very well,” says Nina Tillmann, of the popular Schwatzgelb.com Dortmund fans’ site.

“But I thought this one was a good idea. I feel Jadon is at home with us and could help the club.

“It would be a shame if he didn’t get back

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David Moyes: West Ham to decide manager’s future at end of season
22 April 2024 0

David Moyes: West Ham to decide manager’s future at end of season

By Total Football News

West Ham are still planning to wait until the end of the season before clarifying manager David Moyes’ future.

Moyes’ contract runs out at the end of the campaign and he has refused to say whether his tenure will be extended.

The 60-year-old is the seventh-longest serving manager across England’s four divisions, having replaced Manuel Pellegrini in December 2019.

Moyes steered West Ham clear of relegation trouble that season and

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