Tag: Johannes

Southampton: Johannes Spors forecasts a quiet January window for Saints
12 December 2025 Off

Southampton: Johannes Spors forecasts a quiet January window for Saints

By Total Football News

Southampton technical director Johannes Spors does not expect the club to be “extremely active” in the January transfer window following a busy summer of recruitment.

Saints were 21st and three points above the relegation zone when Will Still was sacked on 3 November after three straight defeats and just two wins from the opening 13 matches (D6 L5).

But they have won six of their seven games since then under

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Johannes Spors: Southampton technical director on Tonda Eckert and promotion dream
11 December 2025 Off

Johannes Spors: Southampton technical director on Tonda Eckert and promotion dream

By Total Football News

Southampton technical director Johannes Spors has said the club are still targeting immediate promotion back to the Premier League following Tonda Eckert’s impressive start to life in the dugout.

Eckert’s run of six wins from his seven games in charge has turned Saints’ season around following their disappointing start under Will Still has delivered a fresh sense of confidence and optimism within St Mary’s.

In a wide-ranging BBC interview, Spors

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Johannes Hoff Thorup: Ex-Norwich boss breaks silence on sacking
1 May 2025 Off

Johannes Hoff Thorup: Ex-Norwich boss breaks silence on sacking

By Total Football News

Former Norwich City boss Johannes Hoff Thorup says he would have done things differently had he known the target was to finish in the Championship play-off places.

The Dane was relieved of his duties by the Canaries last week following a run of six defeats from eight Championship games and only one win.

He was appointed in May 2024 and as recently as February, with the team 10th and four

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Iwan Roberts: Ex-Norwich striker on sacking of Johannes Hoff Thorup
23 April 2025 Off

Iwan Roberts: Ex-Norwich striker on sacking of Johannes Hoff Thorup

By Total Football News

Former Norwich City striker Iwan Roberts believes failure to resolve defensive frailties is a big reason for Johannes Hoff Thorup’s downfall as head coach.

“I watched the first half of the Norwich-Portsmouth game (on Friday) and made a tongue-in-cheek comment to my son after the game, I said ‘that’s a sackable offence’, conceding five goals against a team that had scored seven in their previous 12 games,” he told BBC

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Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich City boss believes play-offs still in reach
28 March 2025 Off

Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich City boss believes play-offs still in reach

By Total Football News

Norwich were beaten by Sheffield Wednesday and Bristol City immediately before the international break, having previously drawn with Blackburn and Oxford United.

Following the West Brom game, they face Plymouth (a), Sunderland (h), Burnley (a), Portsmouth (h), Millwall (a), Middlesbrough (a) and Cardiff (h).

Four of those teams are above them in the table, with Sunderland and Burnley currently fourth and third – and the latter still pushing for automatic

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Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich head coach hits out at timing of Kenny McLean’s four-game ban
11 December 2024 Off

Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich head coach hits out at timing of Kenny McLean’s four-game ban

By Total Football News

The 35-year-old Dane added: “The FA have decided this is the way they want to go.

“They have opened a door where they can go back in time and take decisions like that and even on gamedays they can present the news to the teams. It’s a completely different world to us.

“Everyone was [surprised] but I can’t go into details – Big Brother is watching and that’s how it

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Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich coach appointment ‘creates interest’
22 October 2024 Off

Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich coach appointment ‘creates interest’

By Total Football News

He continued: “We are about to build something special, and an environment and a culture and way of playing that is exciting, so people want to be here.

“And people from outside look at the people here and that’s a good connection to have because it creates some interest and it creates some excitement and that’s what we want.”

Wilshere retired from playing in 2022, aged only 30, and has

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Norwich City 4-1 Watford: First home Championship win for Johannes Thorup
21 September 2024 Off

Norwich City 4-1 Watford: First home Championship win for Johannes Thorup

By Total Football News

Sargent’s early sliding effort from Sainz’s teasing ball across the face of goal was denied by a good save from Daniel Bachmann, but Norwich’s fast start was rewarded soon after.

Doyle picked up the ball in midfield, skipped past Giorgi Chakvetadze and blasted home from the edge of the box as Bachmann failed to keep out the effort despite getting two hands to it.

Watford’s Tom Dele-Bashiru blazed over from

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Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich boss resigned to Gabriel Sara sale
4 August 2024 Off

Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich boss resigned to Gabriel Sara sale

By Total Football News

Having come from 2-0 down to draw with Hoffenheim in their previous game, Norwich found themselves 3-0 down at half-time against St Pauli, and although Jonathan Rowe pulled one back, they could not reduce the deficit further.

“In some moments of the game, the performance was at a very high level, especially at the beginning of the match, and then in some moments of the game it was too low

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