Tag: sack

Spygate: Southampton owner Dragan Solak will not sack head coach Tonda Eckert
1 June 2026 Off

Spygate: Southampton owner Dragan Solak will not sack head coach Tonda Eckert

By Total Football News

The EFL’s commission said it was “deplorable” of the club to have used junior staff members to “conduct the clandestine observations”.

Solak admitted that such a culture was “unacceptable”, but he blamed “a huge amount of misunderstanding, ignorance and arrogance, we have dysfunctions in the club, but we will actually make an effort for people to understand that whoever orders them to do something, that is putting them out of

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Eric Ramsay: West Bromwich Albion sack head coach after nine games
25 February 2026 Off

Eric Ramsay: West Bromwich Albion sack head coach after nine games

By Total Football News

Ramsay joined West Brom following a spell in Major League Soccer with Minnesota United, who he led to back-to-back Conference play-off semi-finals.

Prior to his move to the United States, the Shrewsbury-born Welshman was a first-team coach at Manchester United under Erik ten Hag and took on an assistant coach role with the Wales men’s team.

However, his time at The Hawthorns began with 3-2 loss to Middlesbrough before a

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Valérien Ismael: Blackburn Rovers sack head coach after year
3 February 2026 Off

Valérien Ismael: Blackburn Rovers sack head coach after year

By Total Football News

Analysis by BBC Radio Lancashire’s Andy Bayes

To announce the departure of a head coach five hours before the transfer window closes is a little different, but the executives at Blackburn Rovers probably felt that they had no choice following an eighth home defeat of the season on Saturday.

When I spoke to Valerien Ismael after the defeat by Hull City, he couldn’t defend that record, and he didn’t particularly

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Marti Cifuentes: Leicester City sack manager after just six months in charge
25 January 2026 Off

Marti Cifuentes: Leicester City sack manager after just six months in charge

By Total Football News

Cifuentes left QPR to take over at the Foxes and the demands and expectation on him were high from the outset, with this season marking the 10-year anniversary of their stunning Premier League title win of 2016.

When Cifuentes was named as Ruud van Nistelrooy’s replacement in July, he spoke of wanting to bring a brand of “fearless” football back to the King Power.

There was a sense of that

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Ryan Mason: West Bromwich Albion sack head coach after 27 games
6 January 2026 Off

Ryan Mason: West Bromwich Albion sack head coach after 27 games

By Total Football News

Mason’s appointment marked a shift in direction by Albion, who put their faith in a young head coach with fresh ideas, schooled in the cut and thrust of working at the top level working under the likes of Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and Ange Postecoglou.

Sporting director Andrew Nestor described Mason as “the leader the club needed” and after a summer rebuild that reduced the average age of the squad

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Gary Rowett: Oxford United sack head coach
23 December 2025 Off

Gary Rowett: Oxford United sack head coach

By Total Football News

Having won just four Championship games in the first half of last season, Oxford were staring at an immediate return to League One.

But they appointed the experienced Rowett – who had managed Millwall, Birmingham City, Derby County and Stoke City in the second tier – with the aim of securing Championship survival.

He turned Oxford’s fortunes around quickly, winning three successive matches over the Christmas period to open up

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EFL five things to watch: Manager returns, upward momentum and sack races
7 November 2025 Off

EFL five things to watch: Manager returns, upward momentum and sack races

By Total Football News

Quiz time. Of the 62 teams who both finished last season and started this one in the EFL, who has won the most points in 2025 so far?

Surely it’s Coventry? Nope, not even close. It must be Bradford then? No. Wrexham? Afraid not.

Birmingham’s back-to-back 4-0 home wins this past week took them up to 83 points and counting this year.

League One leaders Stockport are second with 78

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Will Still: Southampton sack manager after five months in charge
2 November 2025 Off

Will Still: Southampton sack manager after five months in charge

By Total Football News

Two Championship wins this season have been accompanied with six draws and five defeats in the league for Saints, who were relegated from the top flight last season.

Those two victories came on the opening day of the season at home to Wrexham and away at Sheffield United on the final day of September.

After beating Northampton Town and Norwich City in the EFL Cup, they were knocked out of

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Ange Postecoglou: Nottingham Forest sack manager after just 39 days in charge
18 October 2025 Off

Ange Postecoglou: Nottingham Forest sack manager after just 39 days in charge

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest head coach Ange Postecoglou was sacked just 17 minutes after the side’s 3-0 defeat by Chelsea at the City Ground on Saturday.

The Australian’s dismissal – 39 days after his appointment on 9 September – means Postecoglou’s stint at Forest is the shortest permanent managerial reign in Premier League history.

The former Tottenham boss failed to win any of his eight matches in charge of Forest, with two

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Nottingham Forest 0-3 Chelsea: Ange Postecoglou on bring of sack after defeat
18 October 2025 Off

Nottingham Forest 0-3 Chelsea: Ange Postecoglou on bring of sack after defeat

By Total Football News

Ange Postecoglou’s future hangs by a thread after three second-half goals secured Chelsea’s Premier League victory at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground, extending Forest’s winless run to eight games.

Defender Josh Acheampong and winger Pedro Neto scored just after half-time, prompting chants of “you don’t know what you are doing” from the home supporters after Postecoglou reacted by immediately bringing on Callum Hudson-Odoi, before captain Reece James sealed victory in a

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