{"id":356855,"date":"2026-01-07T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356855\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:35:10","slug":"keith-wyness-drops-shocked-verdict-on-bournemouth-sacking-andoni-iraola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356855\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Wyness drops shocked verdict on Bournemouth sacking Andoni Iraola"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" \"Ciaran <\/p>\n

Wed 7 January 2026 7:30, UK <\/p>\n

Bournemouth will not be contemplating the immediate future of manager Andoni Iraola despite their poor form.<\/p>\n

That is according to ex-Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness, speaking exclusively to\u00a0Football Insider, who thinks Bournemouth<\/a> have \u201coverperformed\u201d this season.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth\u2019s 3-2 defeat to Arsenal<\/a> extended the Cherries winless streak to 11 Premier League games, and leaves them 15th in the table.<\/p>\n

Iraola will now lose star player Antoine Semenyo, who looks set to join Man City<\/a>, after seeing many key players leave in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Andoni Iraola \u2018the right manager\u2019 for Bournemouth<\/p>\n

Everton\u2019s former chief\u00a0Keith Wyness<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs \u2013 thinks Bournemouth can still turn their season around.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the new edition of\u00a0Football Insider\u2018s Inside Track podcast<\/a>, Wyness believes this tough spell could be good in the long-term for Iraola.<\/p>\n

He told\u00a0Football Insider\u2018s Inside Track podcast: \u201cWell,\u00a0I\u2019ll\u00a0ask you to look at the league table.\u00a0Look,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not the best, but\u00a0still, that whole table is so compressed right now. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI think just a couple of\u00a0wins,\u00a0and they could be back up there. Bournemouth, yes,\u00a0they\u2019ve\u00a0had a couple of patchy spells, but I\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0think in any way\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0under pressure. I think\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0the right manager for the right club.\u00a0I think the right owner\u00a0is there just now.\u00a0They\u2019re\u00a0giving him some freedom.\u00a0They\u2019ll\u00a0stick\u00a0by\u00a0him. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019ve overperformed so far this season,\u00a0actually overall, where they are compared to\u00a0what I thought could happen, having lost so many players at the start of the season.\u00a0So\u00a0look, no, I think\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0okay. And I think\u00a0Iraola\u2019s\u00a0certainly one for the future. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the sort of spell that will toughen him as a manager, where\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0going to\u00a0learn his trade even more. And\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0all right when things are winning, and\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0an attractive team. Now are the times when you really learn as a manager how\u00a0you\u2019ve\u00a0got to manage the squad to get some results and grind out some results and turn that form around. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut look, I\u00a0think\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0not going to be under pressure. I\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0think the fans are anywhere near that situation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Andoni(Credit Imago)Bournemouth ready for key player departure<\/p>\n

Iraola may have to contend with another departure from the Vitality Stadium, with Marcos Senesi\u2019s contract set to expire at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Senesi could leave Bournemouth in January<\/a> after rejecting the club\u2019s offer of a new contract, and the 28-year-old is keen to explore other options.<\/p>\n

The Argentine has started all but one of Bournemouth\u2019s Premier League matches this season, missing the game against Everton<\/a> due to suspension.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed 7 January 2026 7:30, UK Bournemouth will not be contemplating the immediate future of manager Andoni Iraola…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[137252,2296,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-356855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-andoni-iraola","tag-bournemouth","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}