Tag: rebuild

17 July 2026 Off

Newcastle: How have missed targets affected summer rebuild?

By Total Football News

It feels a slightly different project, however, as the fifth anniversary of the Saudi Arabia-led takeover approaches.

Even when Newcastle were in relegation trouble in 2022, the hierarchy at the time sold a dream to Bruno Guimaraes that they could be a “big power”.

Now, though, the Newcastle captain has intimated he wishes to join Arsenal, who have yet to make contact with the club.

As adored as Guimaraes is

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12 April 2026 Off

Stoke City opinion: Does a full rebuild lie ahead for Potters?

By Total Football News

Everything about this game screamed April.

The wind blew a gale while the sun shone and the rain poured and a huge rainbow wrapped around the stadium.

Amongst all of that Stoke played a game that felt meaningless but did shine a light on how much there is to address this summer.

Of the team that started, Gavin Bazunu, Ashley Phillips and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi are on loan, Lewis Baker is

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28 April 2025 Off

Liverpool win Premier League: Reds must rebuild with big signings

By Total Football News

There are questions in defence, especially in the full-back positions, while even Virgil van Dijk’s decision to sign a new contract may not rule out additions at centre-back.

Trent Alexander-Arnold is expected to join Real Madrid on a free transfer, while Andrew Robertson is 31, with speculation rife that Bournemouth’s Hungary left-back Milos Kerkez will arrive as his successor.

Former Liverpool and England midfielder Danny Murphy told BBC Sport: “Van

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6 March 2025 Off

Sheffield United: Expert View – Summer rebuild pivotal to success

By Total Football News

You won’t see many cleaner strikes than Tyrese Campbell’s winner for Sheffield United at QPR.

It was the 25-year-old forward’s seventh goal of the season since switching from Stoke City last summer, and it was due, after a purple patch of six goals in eight matches before injury stuck in December.

Free-transfer Campbell is just one example of the Blades’ excellent pre-season recruitment drive that has propelled Chris Wilder’s men

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15 December 2024 Off

Man City 1-2 Man Utd: Crisis-hit Pep Guardiola faces huge rebuild

By Total Football News

Guardiola suggested the serious renewal will wait until the summer but the red flags have been appearing for weeks in the sudden and shocking decline of a team that has lost the aura of invincibility that left many opponents beaten before kick-off in previous years.

He has had stated City must “survive” this season – whatever qualifies as survival for a club of such rich ambition – but the quest

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12 September 2024 Off

Cristiano Ronaldo questions Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag and calls for ‘rebuild’

By Total Football News

“What I wish for Manchester [United], it’s what I wish for me – [to be] the best team they can.

“I love that club… I’m not that kind of guy that forgot the past.”

In his six-year first spell at United, Ronaldo won three Premier League titles, the Champions League, two League Cups and an FA Cup – as well as the Fifa Club World Cup and Community Shield –

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3 September 2024 Off

Carlos Corberan: West Bromwich Albion boss pleased with squad rebuild

By Total Football News

Five of the players who started Albion’s play-off semi-final second leg in May also started against Swansea, with figures such defender Kyle Bartley and midfielder Alex Mowatt remaining at the heart of their side.

“It’s important that we create the right identity with the players that continue and the new players,” said Corberan.

“The team was playing the game with a lot of desire and commitment.”

Johnston and Holgate were

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19 April 2024 0

Luke Williams: Swansea City face ‘huge task’ in summer rebuild

By Total Football News
Luke Williams celebrates Swansea's win over Cardiff last month
Luke Williams left Notts County to take charge at Swansea in early January

Luke Williams says there is a “huge task” ahead as Swansea City prepare for another close-season rebuild.

Swansea overhauled their playing squad and staff last summer, thanks in part to Russell Martin’s move to Southampton.

But after a difficult season, Williams is expecting another raft of changes.

“We have all but ticked off the first big hurdle,

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