{"id":612920,"date":"2026-04-29T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612920\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:28:09","slug":"xabi-alonso-also-among-the-primary-potential-candidates-for-chelsea-job-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612920\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso also among the primary potential candidates for Chelsea job \u2014 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Outgoing AFC Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola and possibly outgoing Fulham manager Marco Silva appear to be the two primary candidates in the (supposedly) early stages of Chelsea\u2019s search for our next manager head coach, but a report yesterday (Tuesday) from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2026\/04\/27\/andoni-iraola-marco-silva-xabi-alonso-contenders-chelsea\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a> has also lumped in currently unemployed Xabi Alonso into that preferred group for the first time as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alonso built his coaching reputation at Bayer Leverkusen, and while he lasted barely six months at Real Madrid, he remains among the most eligible coaches on the market this summer. Whether he\u2019d ever consider dropping down to our level, that\u2019s another question entirely, but apparently he shares representation with Iraola, so we can kill two rejections with one contact. That\u2019s efficiency!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meanwhile, a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/chelsea-fc-manager-update-silva-iraola-alonso-b1280228.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Standard<\/a> adds that our veritable plethora of sporting directors all agree that Silva would be a \u201ctop candidate\u201d for the job even though Fulham are confident of getting him to agree to a new contract. Jorge Mendes must be loving this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But don\u2019t worry, our cacophony of visionary sporting directors will surely make the right choice after an exhaustive, relentless, determined search of all the yes-men out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outgoing AFC Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola and possibly outgoing Fulham manager Marco Silva appear to be the two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[474,403,99],"class_list":["post-612920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}