{"id":243708,"date":"2026-05-16T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/report-xabi-alonso-agrees-to-become-next-chelsea-boss\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:23:19","slug":"report-xabi-alonso-agrees-to-become-next-chelsea-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/report-xabi-alonso-agrees-to-become-next-chelsea-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Xabi Alonso agrees to become next Chelsea boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Xabi Alonso has approved a four-year contract to take over as manager of Chelsea, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7272415\/2026\/05\/16\/xabi-alonso-chelsea-manager-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Athletic&#8217;s David Ornstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid boss was Chelsea&#8217;s top target as Liam Rosenior&#8217;s permanent successor. Interim boss Calum McFarlane was in charge of the Blues&#8217; FA Cup final defeat to Manchester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/topsn\/news\/3541437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xabi Alonso has approved a four-year contract to take over as manager of Chelsea, according to The Athletic&#8217;s David Ornstein. The former Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid boss was Chelsea&#8217;s top target as Liam Rosenior&#8217;s permanent successor. Interim boss Calum McFarlane was in charge of the Blues&#8217; FA Cup final defeat to Manchester City on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}