Tag: role

Arsenal: Martin Odegaard new role explained by Mikel Arteta after captain’s Champions League winner at Napoli | Football News
9 September 2026 Off

Arsenal: Martin Odegaard new role explained by Mikel Arteta after captain’s Champions League winner at Napoli | Football News

By Total Football News

Martin Odegaard is a player transformed at the start of this season – and Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta puts his captain’s impressive form down to fitness and new positioning.

Odegaard was the match-winner again for Arsenal on Wednesday, thumping in the only goal of the game in the Champions League victory at Napoli.

That hit followed his clinching strike against Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday and takes his

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Liverpool: Michael Edwards departs football chief role at FSG
14 July 2026 Off

Liverpool: Michael Edwards departs football chief role at FSG

By Total Football News

Michael Edwards has left his role as chief executive of football with Liverpool‘s owners Fenway Sports Group.

FSG said Edwards’ departure is part of a “planned transition following the completion of key strategic priorities”, while group president Mike Gordon said the owners are “naturally disappointed” about his exit.

He leaves two years into a three-year contact, having begun a second spell working closely with Liverpool in March 2024, when

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Jeremy Monga: How good is new Man City signing and what role could he play?
14 July 2026 Off

Jeremy Monga: How good is new Man City signing and what role could he play?

By Total Football News

While at Coventry City at the age of 11, Monga undertook specialist one-to-one coaching sessions in a programme that has hosted players from numerous academies around the country all the way up to the Premier League.

“Initially, Jeremy was quite a reserved character, but he goes about himself in the correct way,” Callum Powell of CP Coaching Academy tells BBC Sport.

“He conducts himself well and he is very polite

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Roy Hodgson: Bristol City caretaker boss says role ‘hard to turn down’
30 March 2026 Off

Roy Hodgson: Bristol City caretaker boss says role ‘hard to turn down’

By Total Football News

Roy Hodgson said there was much he missed about football after coming out of retirement to return to the dugout as caretaker manager of Bristol City.

The 78-year-old accepted the role at the Championship club until the end of the season following the sacking of Gerhard Struber on Friday.

The former England manager has not worked since leaving Crystal Palace in 2024 and confirmed he will only be in the

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West Bromwich Albion: James Morrison returns to interim role focused on job at hand
27 February 2026 Off

West Bromwich Albion: James Morrison returns to interim role focused on job at hand

By Total Football News

The failure of former Manchester United coach Ramsay, 34, who was without a win in his nine games in charge, has drawn sharp criticism from fans and raised questions over the wisdom of appointing a manager with no direct experience of the Championship or the English Football League.

Morrison said the situation that Ramsay walked into – with the club having lost 10 away games in a row and sitting

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Leicester City: Marti Cifuentes says he ‘gave everything’ to Foxes role
5 February 2026 Off

Leicester City: Marti Cifuentes says he ‘gave everything’ to Foxes role

By Total Football News

Marti Cifuentes says he “gave everything” during his time at Leicester City and hopes blooding young talent is seen as part of his legacy.

The 43-year-old Spaniard left the King Power last month after six months in charge, with the Foxes sitting in the bottom half of the Championship, well adrift of the play-off places, following their relegation from the Premier League last season.

In a social media post

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Portsmouth: Zesh Rehman to leave club for Saudi Arabia role
20 December 2025 Off

Portsmouth: Zesh Rehman to leave club for Saudi Arabia role

By Total Football News

Portsmouth first-team development coach Zesh Rehman is set to leave the south coast club for a new footballing-based role in the Middle East.

The 42-year-old, who is involved as a member of John Mousinho’ s backroom staff, has accepted a new position in Saudi Arabia.

Portsmouth plan on finding a replacement for Rehman in due course.

He joined the Pompey coaching staff at the start of the 2022-23 campaign under

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Portsmouth crowd has vital role in helping team out of trouble
14 December 2025 Off

Portsmouth crowd has vital role in helping team out of trouble

By Total Football News

The famous Fratton Park atmosphere can be the key to Portsmouth getting out of trouble this season.

Their 2-1 comeback win over Blackburn was a reminder of the power their home support can have in matches and they must lean into it more moving forward.

Once the home team found its feet in the game, the crowd were electric and loud in helping them end a run of three winless

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Preston North End: Odel Offiah growing into new wing-back role
28 November 2025 Off

Preston North End: Odel Offiah growing into new wing-back role

By Total Football News

Preston North End defender Odel Offiah says he is growing into his new role at right wing-back.

After coming off the bench in eight of North End’s first 10 Championship games, the 23-year-old, a centre-back for most of his career, has started the past seven playing at right wing-back.

Fittingly, his uncle Martin was once a star rugby league winger for England and Great Britain.

“It feels good to be

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Rob Edwards: Wolves approach Middlesbrough boss about head coach role
6 November 2025 Off

Rob Edwards: Wolves approach Middlesbrough boss about head coach role

By Total Football News

Wolves have made an approach to Middlesbrough about appointing Rob Edwards as their new head coach.

BBC Sport reported on Sunday that former Luton manager Edwards was among the leading contenders to replace Vitor Pereira, who was sacked following Wolves’ 10-game winless start to the Premier League season.

Wolves held talks with former boss Gary O’Neil, but the 42-year-old withdrew from the running on Monday.

Former Wolves player Edwards, also

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