{"id":10651,"date":"2026-05-19T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:04:21","slug":"the-5-players-who-could-join-xabi-alonso-at-chelsea-from-his-previous-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=10651","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Players Who Could Join Xabi Alonso At Chelsea From His Previous Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><span class=\"c-post-pagination c-post-pagination--next\">Next page \u00bb<\/span><\/nav>\n<p><strong>Now that Chelsea have officially announced that Xabi Alonso will become the club\u2019s manager this summer, we thought it would be a good idea to look at who he could sign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of managers like to raid former clubs for signings because they know what they can do and what they bring to the table.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid have a number of players who could be on the market at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>So, who could Alonso bring with him to Stamford Bridge? Press the next page as we list the 5 top candidates.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><span class=\"c-post-pagination c-post-pagination--next\">Next page \u00bb<\/span><\/nav>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next page \u00bb Now that Chelsea have officially announced that Xabi Alonso will become the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}