{"id":512072,"date":"2026-05-12T05:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=512072"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:55:41","slug":"chelsea-held-talks-with-iraola-about-the-head-coach-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chelsea-held-talks-with-iraola-about-the-head-coach-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea held talks with Iraola about the head coach vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea already discussed the manager position at the club with Andoni Iraola, as the Blues are looking for a permanent head coach. The Cherries manager already declined talks with another London club \u2013 Crystal Palace, and wants to lead a big team, while the team from Stamford Bridge is also considering Xabi Alonso and Marco Silva.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues didn\u2019t have any luck with the head coaching position lately as they already let go 2 permanent managers in the current campaign \u2013 Enzo Maresca and Liam Rosenior. That means the team from west London must look for a boss again, and they are considering Iraola, who led the Cherries very close to European football.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard is represented by IDUB agency, under which agency is also Xabi Alonso, who is without a job after being fired by Real Madrid earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>Most likely, one between Alonso and Iraola will become the next head coach of Chelsea, as the Blues directors want even more Xabi, but it\u2019s still unknown if the former Los Blancos boss is interested in the job opening at Stamford Bridge or will wait for the chance to become Liverpool head coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Xabi Alonso opens doors to Premier League move this summer after initial contacts with his agents.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have a shortlist with candidates for the job and aware of his availability, same for Andoni Iraola who wants to continue in Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>No decision made yet on club\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oxwbXhiMPA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oxwbXhiMPA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2054090698064871856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea already discussed the manager position at the club with Andoni Iraola, as the Blues are looking for a permanent head coach. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":512073,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27114,16774],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[27115,17902],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Blues met with the Bournemouth manager.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512074,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512072\/revisions\/512074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512072"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=512072"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=512072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}