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27 January 2026 Off

Leicester City: Owner Khun Top takes blame for Foxes’ decline

By Total Football News

The club’s finances have been top of the repair list.

Khun Top insists wages, which were outstripping the club’s turnover in recent years, have been “reduced a lot” and that he expects the club to comply with spending rules in future.

As for charges the club faces for alleged PSR breaches relating to the 2023-24 season when Leicester were promoted as Championship title winners, Khun Top was hesitant to go

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27 September 2025 Off

Sheffield United: Ex-Forest assistant Ramos takes Blades coaching role

By Total Football News

Former Nottingham Forest assistant manager Guilherme Ramos has joined Sheffield United as their new first-team coach.

He is the newest addition to the Blades backroom staff following the managerial return of Chris Wilder alongside long-time staff members Alan Knill and Matt Prestridge.

“As I said to the media when I returned, I was keen to use the opportunity to try and freshen up the coaching side. Guilherme is someone I’ve

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25 June 2025 Off

Julien Stephan: Former Rennes boss takes over as QPR head coach

By Total Football News

Queens Park Rangers have appointed Frenchman Julien Stephan as their new head coach.

The 44-year-old has replaced Marti Cifuentes, who was put on gardening leave in April and officially left the club on Tuesday night.

Stephan has had two spells in charge of his hometown club Rennes, who won the French Cup under him in 2019 – their first trophy for 48 years.

After 18 months at Strasbourg, who

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19 April 2025 Off

Cardiff City sack Omer Riza as Wales’ Aaron Ramsey takes charge

By Total Football News

Ramsey has no frontline managerial experience but has harboured coaching ambitions for some time, being tipped by Wales boss Craig Bellamy as someone who could work at a high level at the end of his playing career.

The 86-cap international will be the third man in the Cardiff dugout this season, one that began with Erol Bulut at the helm before he was sacked after picking up just one point

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3 March 2025 Off

Luton 1-0 Portsmouth – Jordan Clarke goal takes Hatters off foot of table

By Total Football News

But Luton held on, surviving a nervy six minutes of stoppage time, to go up to 22nd in the table – and to within two points of safety as they attempt to avoid back-to-back relegations.

Clark’s goal came just after the midpoint of the first half and was a deserved reward for an impressive opening 45 minutes.

An angled Alfie Doughty shot almost doubled the lead before the break, but

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1 February 2025 Off

Bournemouth 0-2 Liverpool: Mohamed Salah double takes leaders nine points clear

By Total Football News

Liverpool, last champions of the Premier League in 2019-20, are chasing their 20th English title in their first season under Arne Slot, who replaced Jurgen Klopp in the summer.

They are now unbeaten in 19 top-flight games, since a 1-0 home loss to Nottingham Forest on 14 September, but Slot’s side had to battle so hard to defeat Bournemouth, who lost for the first time in 12 league matches.

Having

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5 January 2025 Off

Brighton 1-1 Arsenal: Gunners drop points as Joao Pedro takes advantage of William Saliba freak foul

By Total Football News

Arsenal manager Arteta had to rotate his squad, with Kai Havertz missing through illness and captain Martin Odegaard also suffering and only well enough for substitute duty.

The Gunners are already trying to deal with the loss of Bukayo Saka who is out of action with a serious hamstring injury, yet they had by far the better of the opening stages of this game.

The main criticism will be that

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17 December 2024 Off

How to become an agent: What it takes to pass Fifa’s agent exam

By Total Football News

“There is that perception, maybe from the outside and unfounded in many cases, that anyone can be an agent,” says Dean Eldredge, who runs Oporto Sports.

Eldredge deals exclusively with managers and coaches, working with Sven-Goran Eriksson before his death in August, and passed the first exam in April 2023.

Oporto has 15 coaches and managers on its books including former Leicester and Bristol City boss Nigel Pearson, Barnsley’s Darrell

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16 December 2024 Off

Wayne Rooney: Plymouth Argyle boss takes positives from defeat at Sheffield United

By Total Football News

Lewis Gibson hit the Sheffield United post while Ryan Hardie, Mustapha Bundu, Rami Al Hajj and Darko Gyabi all forced saves from former Argyle goalkeeper Michael Cooper.

The loss – a fourth in succession for Argyle – came as experienced defender Brendan Galloway made his first start since August after recovering from injury in an unfamiliar role at left-back.

“In recent away games when we’ve conceded we’ve caved in really,”

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30 May 2024 Off

Leeds United: Red Bull takes minority stake in Championship club

By Total Football News

Leeds United have announced that Red Bull has taken a minority ownership stake in the club, as well as taking over as their front-of-shirt sponsor.

The energy drink brand owns RB Leipzig in Germany’s Bundesliga, Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg and MLS side New York Red Bulls, as well as Red Bull Bragantino in Brazil.

They have also invested in ice hockey, extreme sports, motorsports and two teams in Formula

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