{"id":530379,"date":"2026-04-14T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530379\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:04:10","slug":"andoni-iraola-spanish-coach-set-to-leave-bournemouth-after-failing-to-agree-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530379\/","title":{"rendered":"Andoni Iraola: Spanish coach set to leave Bournemouth after failing to agree new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘No hard feelings towards Iraola’published at 14:19 BST<\/p>\n

14:19 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport Chelsea reporter<\/p>\n

Bournemouth moved heaven and earth to convince Andoni Iraola to stay on as manager but were ultimately unable to reach an agreement.<\/p>\n

For 15 months, senior figures at the club held discussions with Iraola about what it would take for him to remain in the role.<\/p>\n

It was not about money, nor was there any frustration with the club\u2019s sporting direction on the south coast.<\/p>\n

The feeling was that Iraola wanted to delay his decision for as long as possible, as he had done at previous clubs. He was also known to be placing significant weight on his family\u2019s wishes, with growing links to the vacant post at Athletic Club in his native Basque Country.<\/p>\n

Iraola, for those unfamiliar with his playing career, is regarded as one of the top 10 greatest players in Athletic Club\u2019s history. The Bilbao-based club are well financed, despite operating a long-standing policy of only selecting local players.<\/p>\n

It is a blow for the Cherries, but there are no hard feelings towards Iraola, given the close personal relationships that exist at all levels of the club.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Bournemouth have had ample time to plan for his succession knowing his contract was running out and this was the possible outcome of the painstaking time taken to make his final call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘No hard feelings towards Iraola’published at 14:19 BST 14:19 BST Nizaar KinsellaBBC Sport Chelsea reporter Bournemouth moved heaven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530379","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=530379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}