Tag: plan

Morgan Rogers: Chelsea boss Xabi Alonso has ‘plan’ for record signing to play alongside Cole Palmer
27 July 2026 Off

Morgan Rogers: Chelsea boss Xabi Alonso has ‘plan’ for record signing to play alongside Cole Palmer

By Total Football News

Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso says he has a “plan” to play club record £117m signing Morgan Rogers alongside Cole Palmer – and believes the England international will make an “instant impact”.

The midfielder became the most expensive British player of all-time when he moved from Aston Villa to Stamford Bridge last week.

The 24-year-old is on holiday after playing for England at the World Cup, while Chelsea have begun their

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Vitor Reis: What is Manchester City’s plan for the defender?
20 June 2026 Off

Vitor Reis: What is Manchester City’s plan for the defender?

By Total Football News

Despite playing only 22 senior games for Palmeiras, City moved swiftly by spending £29.6m to sign Reis in January 2025.

It was the same month in which they brought in Abdukodir Khusanov and while the Uzbekistan international has established himself as a first-team regular, Reis has managed only four games and was sent out on loan to gain more experience.

His time at Girona did not start particularly well, sent

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Diogo Jota: Liverpool plan memorial sculpture at Anfield
26 July 2025 Off

Diogo Jota: Liverpool plan memorial sculpture at Anfield

By Total Football News

Liverpool have announced plans for a permanent memorial sculpture at Anfield in tribute to Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva.

A “Forever 20” emblem will also be printed on players’ shirts next season.

Portugal and Liverpool forward Jota and Silva, who played for Portuguese second division club Penafiel, died in a car crash on 3 July in the Spanish province of Zamora.

Liverpool retired his number 20 shirt in

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Manchester City fans plan to step up ticket complaint protests
23 April 2025 Off

Manchester City fans plan to step up ticket complaint protests

By Total Football News

Manchester City fans are planning further protests over what they say is the club’s refusal to increase the number of season ticket-holders.

Despite winning the last four Premier League titles and recovering this season to third position, there is discontent among some supporters.

A group staged a second protest this month before their win over Aston Villa on Tuesday, with three main issues:

  • The capacity at Etihad Stadium increasing by

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Prosiect Cymru: Welsh EFL clubs seek FA approval for Europe plan
13 January 2025 Off

Prosiect Cymru: Welsh EFL clubs seek FA approval for Europe plan

By Total Football News

As well as generating more money for football in Wales and raising the domestic game’s profile, the FAW hopes that having the EFL clubs represent Wales in European competition could improve the country’s poor Uefa coefficient ranking, currently 49th out of 55.

Welsh teams tend to struggle in Europe but, in this season’s Europa Conference League, Cymru Premier champions The New Saints became the first side from the Welsh pyramid

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Sol Bamba: Cardiff City and Leeds United plan September match tribute
3 September 2024 Off

Sol Bamba: Cardiff City and Leeds United plan September match tribute

By Total Football News

Cardiff City are planning a tribute to defender Sol Bamba around their Championship home game with Leeds United on Saturday, 21 September.

The former Cardiff player and coach died on Saturday at the age of 39, after being admitted to hospital in Turkey where he had been working as technical director for Adanaspor.

Bamba captained Leeds during a playing career which began at Paris St-Germain and took him to Dunfermline,

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Chelsea: Do owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali have plan for oversized squad?
22 August 2024 Off

Chelsea: Do owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali have plan for oversized squad?

By Total Football News

Chelsea are, to an extent, stockpiling players.

They have spent £1.5bn on young stars from across the world and built a first-team squad that does need slimming down.

There have been between 22 and 28 senior players in Maresca’s group during pre-season, and several will need to leave.

Sterling and Chilwell have been offered to clubs, Chalobah is widely known to be available for sale and talks are ongoing to

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Swansea City: Luke Williams’ plan to compete in the Championship
14 May 2024 0

Swansea City: Luke Williams’ plan to compete in the Championship

By Total Football News

There are other “good signs”, Williams points out, alongside room for improvement.

“We need to be smart about what minutes we give which players – who is suffering, who is in a good place mentally, who is in a good place physically, who is quicker to recover,” he said.

“We need to be double-switched on with tactics, how we approach our set-pieces. Then we need to train so training gives

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