[Dom Smith] Alonso and Iraola emerging as leading contenders, with both managers being above other names in Chelsea’s thinking.
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[Dom Smith] Alonso and Iraola emerging as leading contenders, with both managers being above other names in Chelsea’s thinking.
by webby09246
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Crystal Palace, may I ask you for a favour?
Only way I could ever justify Iraola winning this battle was because Liverpool fired slot and immediately begged Xabi to join them so we missed out
Any other reality where we let Xabi slip through our fingers is unacceptable
Iraola would be completely stupid to give up Bourenmouth who might play in UCL next season for Charity FC.
Praying that Liverpool wins all their remaining games 🙏
These are both atleast actual managers. If xabi is not going to liverpool or city then we have a change. Iraola is good backup from those we can get
I’m honestly fine with either at this point. Iraola seems like a top quality coach with a lot of potential to be effective at a top club. At this point, the main thing that Alonso trumps him over is the trophies
Has to be Xabi, this is the most important appointment under these cunts
Xabi a smokescreen to justify Iraola ?
Iraola not extending at Bournemouth just to join Palace is so weird to me.
Won’t believe it’s Alonso until I see him holding the shirt. Too much talk of other names that it just feels like they’ve put out Alonso to excite people, before snatching it away, something that this ownership has made a habit of in recent years.
Makes sense, gotta be prepared for slot to go I suppose
This makes sense, that’s all I’ll say.
The amount of Liverpool fans losing their heads over this is killing me 😭
It smells like Xabi is just a media toy to appeal to supporters, and we will end up with Iraola…
I just hope I’m wrong.
If the board had put all their eggs in one basket, only spoke to Alonso and then he turned us down, we’d be fucked. I don’t think Iraola is the right appointment but people could do with calming down a bit. Let’s see how it goes. You don’t need to be angry all the time. Think of your blood pressure 🤣
It’s literally so predictable, create Xabi smokescreen to get Iraola. These wankers will never see the pearly gates.
If it’s not Xabi Alonso then I feel the club are showing no ambition yet again. Mid table manager, mid table results. Our top players will want out for sure.
If we do hire Alonso (unlikely), the best thing will be that the Liverpool loving media will take it slightly easy on a chelsea coach with their criticism. They will probably not try to destablize his tenure as much? One can hope
One managed a team to a nearly perfect season and was an very successful player vs someone who has 1 trophy as a manager/player (that being a Cyprus Supercup).
I know who I’d prefer, so naturally BlueCo will pick Iraola.
Only one has experience of the top level in terms of media pressure etc as a manager. It didn’t go well for him but Real still did bad after he left
This is going to be like Enrique and Poch again lmao. We all wanted Enrique but we got Poch