Tag: player

Mykhailo Mudryk: Enzo Maresca yet to speak to player since FA charge
19 June 2025 Off

Mykhailo Mudryk: Enzo Maresca yet to speak to player since FA charge

By Total Football News

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca says he has yet to speak to Mykhailo Mudryk since the forward was charged with violating the Football Association’s anti-doping rules but insists the player retains the club’s support.

Ukraine international Mudryk, 24, was provisionally suspended by the FA in December after an “adverse finding in a routine urine test” and now faces a potential four-year ban.

Mudryk, who at the time of his suspension said

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PFA Young Player of the Year nominees: Liam Delap, Morgan Rogers and Ethan Nwaneri among nominees
19 June 2025 Off

PFA Young Player of the Year nominees: Liam Delap, Morgan Rogers and Ethan Nwaneri among nominees

By Total Football News

Chelsea striker Liam Delap and Arsenal defender Myles Lewis-Skelly are among six nominees for the PFA Young Player of the Year award.

Bournemouth full-back Milos Kerkez, former Cherries defender Dean Huijsen, Arsenal winger Ethan Nwaneri and Aston Villa midfielder Morgan Rogers make up the shortlist.

Delap, who joined Chelsea from Ipswich in a £30m deal earlier this month, scored 12 goals in the Premier League last season as the Tractor

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Matheus Cunha: Wolves give Manchester United permission to speak to player after release clause terms met
27 May 2025 Off

Matheus Cunha: Wolves give Manchester United permission to speak to player after release clause terms met

By Total Football News

Manchester United have met the terms of Matheus Cunha’s £62.5m release clause and been given permission by Wolves to speak to the Brazil forward.

Wolves earlier rejected United’s proposal to pay the fee over five years.

United will be required to pay the full fee for the 26-year-old in three instalments over a two-year period.

They now have permission to conclude a deal with Cunha and set up a medical,

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Liverpool: Mohamed Salah wins Premier League player of year award
24 May 2025 Off

Liverpool: Mohamed Salah wins Premier League player of year award

By Total Football News

Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has been named Premier League player of the season.

It is the second time the 32-year-old Egyptian has won the award, which is decided after votes from the public are combined with those from a panel of football experts, having also claiming it in the 2017-18 campaign.

Salah, who led his side to the Premier League title this season, beat off the challenge from team-mates Virgil

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Angelo Ogbonna: Watford to release former West Ham United player
22 May 2025 Off

Angelo Ogbonna: Watford to release former West Ham United player

By Total Football News

Angelo Ogbonna will be released by Watford at the end of his contract next month.

The Italy international defender signed a one-year deal with the Hornets last summer after he was allowed to leave West Ham United following nine seasons in east London.

Ogbonna, 36, made just eight appearances this season and was the biggest name to be released when the club announced its retained list.

The centre-back began his

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Trent Alexander-Arnold: Mohamed Salah criticises ‘harsh’ boos of departing Liverpool player
16 May 2025 Off

Trent Alexander-Arnold: Mohamed Salah criticises ‘harsh’ boos of departing Liverpool player

By Total Football News

Alexander-Arnold has made 353 appearances for Liverpool in all competitions, scoring 23 goals.

He has helped them win two Premier League titles, the Champions League, the FA Cup and the League Cup, and Salah believes he deserves the best send-off possible given what he has helped the club achieve.

“I really love him,” he added.

“I think he deserves the best farewell leaving the club. He has done a lot

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Bryan Mbeumo: Premier League player of the season nomination ‘crazy’ for Brentford man
16 May 2025 Off

Bryan Mbeumo: Premier League player of the season nomination ‘crazy’ for Brentford man

By Total Football News

Brentford forward Bryan Mbeumo says it feels “crazy” to have been nominated for the Premier League’s player of the season award.

The 25-year-old Cameroon international has scored 18 goals and provided seven assists in 36 league outings for the Bees, who are chasing a place in European competition for the first time.

“I didn’t really expect it,” Mbeumo told BBC Sport Africa.

“I know I have [had] a good season,

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Liverpool trio lead Premier League player of the season nominees
15 May 2025 Off

Liverpool trio lead Premier League player of the season nominees

By Total Football News

Three members of Liverpool’s title-winning squad have been nominated for the Premier League’s player of the season award.

Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, and Ryan Gravenberch lead the eight-player shortlist after helping the Reds to a 20th league title.

Captain Van Dijk has played every game for Liverpool this season, helping the club record 14 clean sheets, while midfielder Gravenberch has only missed one match.

Salah, meanwhile, has registered a

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Gerry Francis: Leeds United’s first black player dies at 91
12 May 2025 Off

Gerry Francis: Leeds United’s first black player dies at 91

By Total Football News

Leeds United are mourning the death of Gerry Francis, the first black player to feature for the club.

The South African winger made 52 appearances for Leeds, scoring nine goals between 1957 and 1961.

Francis worked in a shoe factory before moving to England and played in Don Revie’s first game in charge of Leeds against Portsmouth on 18 March 1961.

He also played 16 games for York City and

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Jack Rudoni: Coventry City midfielder ‘looks a top flight player in the making’
4 May 2025 Off

Jack Rudoni: Coventry City midfielder ‘looks a top flight player in the making’

By Total Football News

It’s the play-offs again for Coventry, but this time they have Jack Rudoni.

His outstanding display against Middlesbrough on Saturday was the catalyst to an excellent victory in front of a club-record crowd at the CBS Arena.

The 23-year-old – signed last summer after two solid but unspectacular seasons at Huddersfield, which concluded in relegation – has blossomed with the Sky Blues.

Against Middlesbrough in a high-stakes game, I saw

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