Tag: owner

Andoni Iraola: Bournemouth owner Bill Foley set to visit England to open talks with boss over new contract
15 April 2025 Off

Andoni Iraola: Bournemouth owner Bill Foley set to visit England to open talks with boss over new contract

By Total Football News

Bournemouth owner Bill Foley is scheduled to fly to England this week, with the club intending to open formal talks with boss Andoni Iraola over a new contract.

Sources close to the club have indicated that, barring a last-minute change, American businessman Foley will arrive in time to attend Saturday’s Premier League match against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

Foley will then stay in the UK to officially open Bournemouth’s

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Sheffield Wednesday: No offers to buy club says owner Dejphon Chansiri
14 April 2025 Off

Sheffield Wednesday: No offers to buy club says owner Dejphon Chansiri

By Total Football News

In a lengthy letter on the club website he said he would sell to “the right individual, or group, to take our club forward”.

Chansiri added: “We have all seen speculation and stories that a consortium or individual is ready to come in and take over. But I can guarantee there have been no offers at all.

“There has been some interest but nothing at all substantial that

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Sheffield Wednesday: Owls fail to pay wages of players for March due to cashflow issues for owner Dejphon Chansiri
31 March 2025 Off

Sheffield Wednesday: Owls fail to pay wages of players for March due to cashflow issues for owner Dejphon Chansiri

By Total Football News

Sheffield Wednesday have failed to pay their players’ wages for March due to cashflow problems suffered by owner Dejphon Chansiri.

The club said it was a “temporary issue” due to debts owed to the 56-year-old Thai businessman, whose family control the Thai Union Group, the world’s largest producer of canned tuna.

Wednesday are 12th in the Championship – five points outside the play-off places – and face Hull City at

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Cardiff City lose £11m as club remains reliant on owner Vincent Tan
5 March 2025 Off

Cardiff City lose £11m as club remains reliant on owner Vincent Tan

By Total Football News

Elsewhere, the club’s turnover fell by more than £3m and increased investment into the playing squad.

With the player wage bill up by 40% to £19.9m, it resulted in an operating loss of just under £10m – down by £1.1m compared to the previous year – with the club again detailing reliance on the ongoing support of majority shareholder Tan.

The Malaysian backer, who took control of Cardiff in 2010,

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Bristol City ‘not close’ to takeover says owner Steve Lansdown
24 February 2025 Off

Bristol City ‘not close’ to takeover says owner Steve Lansdown

By Total Football News

Bristol City owner Steve Lansdown has revealed the club are “not close” to a potential takeover or new investment.

Lansdown’s comments come two and a half years on from when he first discussed the idea of selling Bristol City for the “right deal” which could end his 28-year affiliation with his hometown club.

In his first interview with BBC Radio Bristol since April 2023, Lansdown detailed why a purchase for

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Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has ‘no regrets’ in VAR fight
5 December 2024 Off

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has ‘no regrets’ in VAR fight

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis says he has “no regrets” over his actions after calling out “big mistakes” made by the video assistant referee (VAR).

Marinakis was handed a five-game stadium ban in October for spitting on the floor as match officials walked past in the tunnel following Forest’s 1-0 Premier League defeat by Fulham at the City Ground on 28 September.

“We have seen things that are unbelievable and

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Coventry City: Owner Doug King keen to move on after Mark Robins’ painful ‘divorce’
11 November 2024 Off

Coventry City: Owner Doug King keen to move on after Mark Robins’ painful ‘divorce’

By Total Football News

And King has now stressed that Rhys Carr, one of the club’s first-team coaches, will remain as caretaker boss, when they return to action following the international break with a lunchtime home game against Sheffield United on 23 November.

When questioned as to why he had not already gone the perceived modern-day football way, of having a replacement lined up, he said simply: “That’s not the way I work.

“I’ve

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Nottingham Forest: Owner Evangelos Marinakis loses five-game stadium ban appeal
4 November 2024 Off

Nottingham Forest: Owner Evangelos Marinakis loses five-game stadium ban appeal

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has lost his appeal against a five-game stadium ban.

The 57-year-old was found guilty of improper conduct for spitting on the floor as the match officials walked past following Forest’s 1-0 Premier League defeat by Fulham at the City Ground on 28 September.

In publishing its written reasons behind the decision, the commission said there was “no excuse” for such an “an egregious display of

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Evangelos Marinakis: Nottingham Forest owner given stadium ban for spitting towards officials
22 October 2024 Off

Evangelos Marinakis: Nottingham Forest owner given stadium ban for spitting towards officials

By Total Football News

The commission read reports from referee Robert Jones and fourth official Anthony Taylor, who said Nuno and Gibbs-White swore at them following the midfielder’s red card.

Nuno was also said to have “gesticulated aggressively” at Jones.

However, the statements added that Nuno apologised to the officials after the game. Both men wrote letters of apology to the commission and gave oral submissions.

The commission believed Gibbs-White’s remorse and assertion that

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Derby County: Owner David Clowes in talks about selling majority share in Rams
24 September 2024 Off

Derby County: Owner David Clowes in talks about selling majority share in Rams

By Total Football News

Derby County owner David Clowes has held talks with unnamed potential investors about selling a majority stake in the Championship club.

The Derbyshire property developer spoke to BBC Radio Derby in the summer about being open to bringing in new shareholders to help fund the club’s aspirations of returning to the Premier League.

It was reported by the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday that Clowes would consider selling upwards

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