{"id":760772,"date":"2026-07-13T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760772\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:41:10","slug":"xabi-alonso-chelsea-press-conference-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760772\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso Chelsea press conference LIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Time will tell&#8217;published at 15:34 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:34 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/89ef3434-e520-4f5e-a8f5-709a030cbb63.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-19h5ilb-ContributorLink etflsgg0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso on whether he is confident to build a team capable of competing in the Premier League, if not win it:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Time will tell. I&#8217;m sure we have ambition to win a lot of games, to be competitive,&#8221; said Alonso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve said before we need to take important decisions, to build strong principles, strong mentaltity and culture in the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Time will tell, I&#8217;m not going to say what will happen in May as it&#8217;s too early to say that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am confident, I am optimistic we can have a great season, and for that, it&#8217;s time to prepare, it&#8217;s time to work, to be intelligent in many things and follow that with belief and belief from fans here at Stamford Bridge, it will be very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Time will tell&#8217;published at 15:34 BST 15:34 BST Chelsea Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso on whether he is confident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-760772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760772","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=760772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}