The news that Xabi Alonso has agreed to become their new manager will come as welcome news to Chelsea supporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is not just that they are getting somebody with a proven track record as a player with Liverpool, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, and as a manager with Bayer Leverkusen. But ii is also the fact that he will be coming in with the job title as manager<\/strong>and not head coach.<\/p>\n Whilst nobody will admit it publicly, that is tantamount to a confession by the BlueCo ownership that the previous model had not been working under their tenure, Liam Rosenior, Enzo Maresca, Graham Potter, and the others that had gone before since the American consortium had taken over, all operated within\u00a0 certain constraints.<\/p>\n It was the recruitment team who bought and sold the players, and it was the job of the head coach to work with the squad that had been assembled. Now Alonso can expect to have a significant say in any transfer decisions, and also in determining the style of football that will be played.<\/p>\n There is a reason why that is the norm in professional football in England and that is because it works.<\/p>\n BlueCo appear to have finally learned this lesson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The news that Xabi Alonso has agreed to become their new manager will come as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10730","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\/10730","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=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"chelsea](\"https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chelsea-300x169.jpg\")
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