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Xabi Alonso has arrived at Cobham for his first day as Chelsea manager, as the club\u2019s new era begins on the training pitch.<\/strong><\/p>\n Chelsea confirmed Alonso\u2019s arrival at Cobham with an official club video, showing the Spaniard starting work with the men\u2019s first-team group.<\/p>\n The 43-year-old officially began his Chelsea role on 1 July after signing a four-year contract. His first day at Cobham now gives the appointment a more visible starting point.<\/p>\n For Chelsea, the focus quickly moves from announcement to application. Alonso must turn a talented but unsettled squad into a side with clearer structure, stronger rhythm and more reliable standards.<\/p>\n ReadChelsea has already looked at how Alonso\u2019s first pre-season date gave Chelsea a key squad audit. That audit now begins in the environment that matters most.<\/p>\n Alonso will not settle every question on day one. Several senior players are still away after World Cup duty, while others face uncertain futures during the transfer window.<\/p>\n But the first Cobham session still carries weight. It gives Alonso the chance to set demands early and start shaping the tone of pre-season.<\/p>\n Chelsea\u2019s first friendly under him comes against Western Sydney Wanderers on 28 July, before further matches against Tottenham, Juventus, AC Milan and Johor Darul Ta\u2019zim.<\/p>\n Those games will offer the first public signs of his tactical plan. Until then, Cobham is where Alonso\u2019s Chelsea will start to take shape.<\/p>\n The appointment was the headline. His arrival at the training ground is the first real step.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Xabi Alonso has arrived at Cobham for his first day as Chelsea manager, as the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16023","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\/16023","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=16023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chelsea Reset Now Starts On The Grass<\/h2>\n