Tag: improve

Nottingham Forest 0-0 Tottenham: Expensive but misfiring Spurs still need to improve
6 September 2026 Off

Nottingham Forest 0-0 Tottenham: Expensive but misfiring Spurs still need to improve

By Total Football News

Last March’s 3-0 win for Forest at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium provided the platform for the visitors’ survival bid while leaving Spurs floundering until the final day.

Since then Spurs have spent over £300m on new players – contributing to the record £3.49bn Premier League outlay this summer.

Sandro Tonali, Jon Paul Van Hecke, Savio and Omar Marmoush were the new signings who started on Saturday, with De Zerbi remaining

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Tony Mowbray: Blackburn manager says owners want to ‘help’ improve squad
10 August 2026 Off

Tony Mowbray: Blackburn manager says owners want to ‘help’ improve squad

By Total Football News

Tony Mowbray said Blackburn Rovers owners Venky’s “want to help” as he seeks to sign a player who could add “magic dust” to his squad.

The 62-year-old was appointed manager this summer at Ewood Park for the second time and says the owners, who have had a turbulent relationship with supporters during their 16-year tenure, have given him positive signs.

The Championship side have brought in midfielder Moussa Baradji,

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Leicester City: Podcast – Will backroom changes improve the Foxes?
18 November 2025 Off

Leicester City: Podcast – Will backroom changes improve the Foxes?

By Total Football News

“I think we’ve been asking to hear from the powers that be for quite a while – it’s been long overdue.”

BBC Radio Leicester’s Owynn Palmer-Atkin is joined by former Foxes winger Matt Piper and Lynn Wyeth from the Foxes Trust to discuss the changes to Leicester City’s board announced on Friday.

Listen to the latest episode of When You’re Smiling and more Leicester City content on BBC Sounds.

This …

Manchester United: Luke Shaw backs Ruben Amorim’s demands to improve culture
30 July 2025 Off

Manchester United: Luke Shaw backs Ruben Amorim’s demands to improve culture

By Total Football News

Shaw, 30, says the message must be reinforced by United’s senior players, including himself.

“The more experienced ones need to be demanding more, day in, day out,” he said.

“The levels in training, keeping to the times of when we’re doing this or that, making sure no-one’s coming late.

“The manager’s not bothered. He doesn’t care who the player is. That’s how it should be. Whatever he wants, as players,

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Brentford transfers: Jordan Henderson says he can still improve after signing two-year deal
15 July 2025 Off

Brentford transfers: Jordan Henderson says he can still improve after signing two-year deal

By Total Football News

Henderson’s contract was ended a year early after Ajax missed out on the league title on the final day of last season. The decision was reportedly driven in part by the club’s financial difficulties, with Henderson their biggest earner.

The 35-year-old was involved in controversy during his 18 months at the club.

On 30 January, Henderson played in a 2-1 Europa League win against Galatasaray but refused to captain the

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Ben Knapper: Liam Manning will improve Norwich performances
9 June 2025 Off

Ben Knapper: Liam Manning will improve Norwich performances

By Total Football News

Norwich finished 13th last season, 11 points adrift of the play-offs, and sacked Johannes Hoff Thorup in April after less than a year in charge.

After leaving the role the Dane believed there were mixed messages on whether to prioritise player development over results and said he would have done some things differently.

“Had the communication from the start been that we should reach the top six and be one

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Sheffield Wednesday: Danny Rohl wants to improve – do Owls have same ambition?
21 April 2025 Off

Sheffield Wednesday: Danny Rohl wants to improve – do Owls have same ambition?

By Total Football News

If you want to play a progressive brand of football and succeed, to the extent of being a Championship promotion contender, a big summer is necessary. Typically that kind of reality check resonates. Instead, it has invited criticism.

I just don’t think Rohl wants to stand still. Not unfairly he sees a squad with some quality but nowhere near enough to be a legit top-six team.

That is exactly the

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Anis Mehmeti: Bristol City forward can ‘100%’ still improve
13 February 2025 Off

Anis Mehmeti: Bristol City forward can ‘100%’ still improve

By Total Football News

Bristol City forward Anis Mehmeti believes his “all-round game” can still improve after he scored both goals in the team’s win against Stoke City.

Mehmeti now has 11 goals this campaign as the club’s leading scorer, almost three times as many as the four he scored in the Championship during 2023-24.

“In terms of my all-round game, 100%, I can be more of a threat in one-v-one situations,” Mehmeti told

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Callum Doyle says Norwich must improve to maintain promotion push
12 February 2025 Off

Callum Doyle says Norwich must improve to maintain promotion push

By Total Football News

Norwich travel to Hull City on Saturday with the Tigers third from bottom ahead of their game at Burnley on Wednesday, before facing two of their play-off rivals – Blackburn and Sheffield Wednesday – among their next five matches.

The return of leading scorer Borja Sainz against Preston after his six-game ban was one of the main positives for the Canaries and Doyle said the Spaniard’s presence should prove significant

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Ruben Amorim’s task to improve ‘mediocre Manchester United’
8 December 2024 Off

Ruben Amorim’s task to improve ‘mediocre Manchester United’

By Total Football News

Yet Amorim’s version of events in Lisbon doesn’t quite stack up.

After taking charge on 4 March 2020, Sporting won six out of their 11 games and drew three. Their two defeats came in the final three games of a campaign interrupted by Covid-19 in away games against FC Porto, when Amorim’s team lost 2-0, and Benfica, when they were beaten 2-1 by a goal two minutes from time.

“I

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