{"id":458848,"date":"2026-03-05T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458848\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:05:09","slug":"andy-farrell-directly-addresses-saracens-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458848\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell directly addresses Saracens rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andy Farrell expects to hold talks about his future as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> head coach in the \u201cnear future\u201d following reports linking him with Saracens.<\/p>\n<p>The Gallagher Prem club last week dismissed claims they had offered the 50-year-old a coaching role for after the 2027 Rugby World Cup, branding them \u201cdisrespectful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell, who is preparing for Ireland\u2019s Guinness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/six-nations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six Nations<\/a> match at home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/wales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> on Friday evening, was a Sarries player between 2005 and 2009 and also began his coaching career there.<\/p>\n<p>His son \u2013 former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/owen-farrell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Farrell<\/a> \u2013 is back playing with the English side following a brief spell with French club Racing 92.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell succeeded Joe Schmidt as Ireland head coach in 2019 and signed a new \u201clong-term\u201d deal with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) in December 2023 to continue until next year\u2019s World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/808.png.webp.webp\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> Ireland <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/818.png.webp.webp\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> Wales <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/live\/ireland-vs-wales\/?g=947113\/\" class=\"link-box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, you\u2019d expect me to say that I\u2019m here to just concentrate on the Six Nations and what will be, will be in the future,\u201d he said of the links to Saracens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I suppose it\u2019s people (putting) two and two together and making five with the connections: good friends with the owner, Owen\u2019s there, all of that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see why that\u2019s happened but I suppose we\u2019ll sit down and have discussions with the IRFU in the near future, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell expects to hold talks about his future as Ireland head coach in the \u201cnear future\u201d following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-458848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458848","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=458848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}