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What will be key to their success?
Recruitment. The Clarets have seen 12 departures so far this summer and will need to rebuild their squad with a team that fits Hayen’s style of play.
The Belgian likes to play high-possession football and wants to be direct once in a position to attack, so players who are good on the ball and able to intercept will be high on his wishlist.
Relegated Burnley and West Ham will meet on the opening weekend of the Championship season on Sunday, 16 August.
The Clarets, whose bid to appoint Wales manager Craig Bellamy as boss looks to have fallen through, finished 19th in the top flight last season and will host the Hammers, who went down on the final day.
Fellow relegated side Wolves will play the league’s curtain-raiser against Blackburn at Molineux on
By Jerome Sale, BBC Radio Oxford
In the end, Oxford ran out of steam.
It feels like they have been playing high value games for months – maybe even since the moment they arrived in the Championship two years ago. It takes its toll.
What went wrong? It is not one big thing it is lots of things, the ill-fated pre-season tour of Indonesia and a stop-start summer transfer window
Former Jamaica international Morgan made 324 appearances in his near decade-long stay with the club, having joined the Foxes from East Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest in 2012.
He was part of the team that won promotion as Championship title-winners in 2014, led them in the ‘great escape’ as they narrowly avoided relegation a year later and then went on to skipper them to the famous Premier League title win.
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The departure of striker Jamie Vardy – a player lauded as the club’s greatest of all time – and the Foxes’ failure to find a replacement remotely capable of matching the former England international’s dynamism and gift for goals has hurt Leicester this season.
Two years ago, at the age of 37, Vardy was Leicester’s top scorer with 18 goals as they won promotion from the Championship as title winners.
After finishing eighth in the Premier League in 2022 and reaching the Conference League semi-finals, then manager Brendan Rodgers warned the club needed to alter their expectations.
Covid had a big impact on King Power – the duty-free retailer owned by Vichai – as airline travel halted.
The ripples were still being felt and, after an eight-game winless start to 2022-23, Rodgers said Leicester needed to focus on reaching 40
When Sheffield Wednesday begin the League One season in August they will not be sure of many things.
But what they will be certain of is unwavering support from their fans – fans who could be forgiven for feeling downtrodden and bereft of hope as this most distressing of seasons edges towards its conclusion.
On Saturday, that same support helped galvanise their team as they threatened a second-half fightback against
Kvistgaarden was his replacement and soon fired a left-foot effort into the net from Kenny McLean’s perfectly-weighted through ball, but he had started his run fractionally early and it was ruled offside.
The Dane was not to be denied, however, and after Seny Dieng kept out Ali Ahmed’s point-blank effort following a good move down the right, Kvistgaarden headed the loose ball against the bar before finally nodding the rebound
Leeds started well as Joe Rodon and Brenden Aaronson saw efforts saved by Conor Hazard before they fell behind.
Bundu had given Leeds a warning a minute before the goal as he beat three men before blasting an effort that grazed the outside of the post.
When the resurgent Sierra Leone forward cut in from the left moments later, the net did bulge as his low effort came back off
There was a sense that the damage had already been done to Cardiff’s faltering bid to avoid relegation, with a run of just one win from their previous 13 matches leading to their second managerial sacking of the season as Omer Riza was dismissed a week earlier.
Wales captain Aaron Ramsey was brought in as caretaker boss with three games left, a desperate roll of the dice from the club’s