{"id":620847,"date":"2026-09-19T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620847\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:14:11","slug":"xabi-alonso-furious-with-chelsea-board-joe-cole-claims-tactical-gamble-in-brentford-loss-was-a-clear-as-day-transfer-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620847\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso &#8216;furious&#8217; with Chelsea board? Joe Cole claims tactical gamble in Brentford loss was a &#8216;clear as day&#8217; transfer message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heart of Chelsea&#8217;s midfield was entirely dismantled during the summer transfer window. Key figures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/news\/the-historic-deal-is-completed-in-the-final-moments-manchester-city-officially-announce-the-signing-of-enzo\/blt965ac4885a05dc7b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Enzo Fernandez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/andrey-santos-50m-transfer-man-utd-chelsea-first-michael-carrick-signing\/blt12a1bf826b1f54bf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Andrey Santos<\/a> were sold to Manchester City and Manchester United respectively, while a deadline-day move for Monaco&#8217;s Lamine Camara collapsed at the final hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Former Premier League striker Murray noted that Alonso has been forced to use full-backs like Reece James and Malo Gusto in central areas. Against Brentford, a 36-year-old Jordan Henderson partnered summer arrival Valentin Barco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think when Xabi Alonso brings on the young boy Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli at 16 when you\u2019re 2-0 down, that is a message to the board that you don\u2019t have enough in midfield with Santos and Fernandez leaving in the transfer window,&#8221; Murray stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a big blind spot for them, they have had right-backs playing in the centre of midfield on a few occasions, today they have two natural midfielders in but bringing the 16-year-old was a big message.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heart of Chelsea&#8217;s midfield was entirely dismantled during the summer transfer window. Key figures Enzo Fernandez and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[280514,4027,85,46,2619,105,199699],"class_list":["post-620847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brentford-vs-chelsea","tag-chelsea","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-x-alonso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}