{"id":2449,"date":"2026-04-29T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:04:30","slug":"sources-doubt-premier-league-manager-is-good-fit-for-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"Sources doubt Premier League manager is good fit for Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Oliver Glasner is someone Chelsea are interested in \u2013 but we can\u2019t see them actually appointing him as our new coach.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoy Chelsea News coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Andoni Iraola has been established as the favourite as Chelsea look for a new manager. Cesc Fabregas and Xabi Alonso are the names the fans seem to want. Eddie Howe and Marco Silva are the ugly ducklings at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>But those aren\u2019t the only names Chelsea are looking at. Our writer Simon Phillips has reported on his Substack that both Oliver Glasner and Niko Kovac are in the frame.<\/p>\n<h2>Glasner looks like an impossible fit for Chelsea<\/h2>\n<p>Glasner has done a great job at Crystal Palace, but is leaving because he\u2019s fallen out with those above him. That\u2019s caused the doubts that Chelsea seem to have about him, according to Phillips:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Glasner, our source says that at this moment, Chelsea are unsure whether he would work \u2018collaboratively\u2019 with them \u2013 hence why he is much lower down the list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If he couldn\u2019t handle Palace, we can only imagine how he\u2019d get on at Chelsea, where he would have far less say in all areas of the club.<\/p>\n<h2>In other news\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve finally found out how long Mykhailo Mudryk could be banned for, and if he has a good outcome to his appeal, he could be halfway through it already.<\/p>\n<p>Romeo Lavia played well against Leeds on Sunday, and after the game spoke a little about what he and his teammates had considered \u201cunacceptable\u201d about their recent showings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CHELSEA NEWS APP FOR ALL THE LATEST UPDATES \u2013 STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON THE APP STORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the latest edition of Simon Phillips\u2019 SPTC podcast here:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPTC Podcast: Leeds fan Jack Durkin joins Jai Mcintosh to preview the FA Cup Semi Final!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/td3C9ns6uiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"more-stories std-mgn-b\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<header class=\"col-s-12 std-mgn-t\">More Stories about <span class=\"topic\">Oliver Glasner<\/span><\/header>\n<div class=\"post-container col-s-4\">\n<p>\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-cntr\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn.chelsea.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3807973-000_9AJ8BE.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-93021 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icdn.chelsea.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3807973-000_9AJ8BE-300x199.jpg 300w,https:\/\/icdn.chelsea.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3807973-000_9AJ8BE-768x510.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1230px) 250px, (min-width:1020px) 20vw, (min-width:920px) 290px, (min-width:680px) 30vw, (min-width:394px) 130px, 33vw\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Glasner is someone Chelsea are interested in \u2013 but we can\u2019t see them actually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","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\/2449","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=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}