Tag: relegation

Manchester City: Rival clubs want more than relegation from the Premier League
6 October 2026 Off

Manchester City: Rival clubs want more than relegation from the Premier League

By Total Football News

A number of Premier League clubs want Manchester City to be hit with both “retrospective punishments” and sanctions for the future for their mass financial rule-breaking, sources have told BBC Sport.

An independent commission found City guilty of all charges relating to breaches of the Premier League’s financial regulations between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons.

City have appealed against the verdict.

However, there is said to be a consensus among

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Hull City on course to avoid relegation after seven points from three matches?
6 September 2026 Off

Hull City on course to avoid relegation after seven points from three matches?

By Total Football News

As recently as last year Hull avoided relegation to League One only on goal difference.

Fast-forward 16 months and they are now going toe to toe with the big names of the Premier League.

The turnaround can be traced back to the arrival of Jakirovic before last season.

The former Bosnia international joined a club under a transfer embargo, confining them to free transfers and loans, but still made them

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Everton: From European hopes to relegation form – will Moyes reignite Toffees?
3 August 2026 Off

Everton: From European hopes to relegation form – will Moyes reignite Toffees?

By Total Football News

While the success of Bournemouth and Brighton has been built on impressive recruitment models, Everton‘s transfer strategy remains a work in progress.

Under previous owner Farhad Moshiri, eight players signed for at least £20m left for nothing.

Following several years of limited spending, nine players were then recruited by the Friedkin Group last summer, although a focus on youth has yet to bear fruit.

Grealish and Dewsbury-Hall have been

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West Ham United: Lukasz Fabianski and Adama Traore released after relegation
12 June 2026 Off

West Ham United: Lukasz Fabianski and Adama Traore released after relegation

By Total Football News

Goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski and winger Adama Traore will leave West Ham United on free transfers at the end of the season.

Fabianski, 41, first joined the Hammers in 2018 and played 216 games for the club, helping them win the Uefa Europa Conference League in 2023.

Traore, 30, made 12 appearances after arriving from Fulham in January.

Neither player has been offered a new deal, following the club’s relegation from

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Grant Ferguson: Oxford chairman says club will ‘regroup quickly’ following relegation
26 April 2026 Off

Grant Ferguson: Oxford chairman says club will ‘regroup quickly’ following relegation

By Total Football News

Oxford United chairman Grant Ferguson has told fans that the club are determined to learn from their relegation and challenge for promotion from League One next season.

The drop from the Championship was confirmed on Saturday, when fellow strugglers Charlton secured a draw against Hull.

It ended Oxford’s two-year stay in the second tier.

In a message to fans on the club’s website, Ferguson thanked them for their support

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Leicester relegated: From Premier League champions to League One with Championship relegation
22 April 2026 Off

Leicester relegated: From Premier League champions to League One with Championship relegation

By Total Football News

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

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Portsmouth 1-0 Leicester City: Relegation fears deepen for Foxes
19 April 2026 Off

Portsmouth 1-0 Leicester City: Relegation fears deepen for Foxes

By Total Football News

Leicester, Premier League champions 10 years ago, had shouts for a penalty waved away by referee Gavin Ward in the opening 10 minutes when Conor Shaughnessy brought Patson Daka down in the box but nothing was given.

The hosts were forced into making two early changes when winger Keshi Anderson and full-back Terry Devlin, who recently picked up Portsmouth’s player of the season award, were withdrawn because of injury.

The

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Gary Rowett: Leicester City need ‘something special’ to avoid relegation
17 April 2026 Off

Gary Rowett: Leicester City need ‘something special’ to avoid relegation

By Total Football News

Rowett admitted he “expected more” than the one win and six draws he has overseen in his 10 games at the Foxes’ helm, and went as far as describing it as “probably the toughest” relegation rescue mission he has taken on – having previously pulled struggling sides away from trouble as Oxford United, Millwall and Birmingham City boss.

The team he is in charge of will go on to rank

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Vipotnik strike deepens Leicester’s relegation fears
13 April 2026 Off

Vipotnik strike deepens Leicester’s relegation fears

By Total Football News

After a week in which Leicester lost their appeal against their six-point deduction, boss Gary Rowett made one change from the side which drew 1-1 with Sheffield Wednesday last time out, as Jannik Vestergaard was handed a start for the first time since January.

Swansea, who made three changes from their 2-2 draw with Middlesbrough, struggled to create any meaningful chances in the first half – though they did have

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Portsmouth: Opinion – One moment could decide Pompey’s relegation fate
9 April 2026 Off

Portsmouth: Opinion – One moment could decide Pompey’s relegation fate

By Total Football News

Was referee Josh Smith right to send Connor Ogilvie off at Fratton Park on Monday? Should Oxford’s Brodie Spencer have gotten his marching orders in the second half?

I don’t think so and probably, would be my answers but I’m not trying to re-open a debate about refereeing. I am highlighting just how tight things are at the bottom of the Championship.

Portsmouth have just six matches remaining. There is

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