Jon Mackenzie

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Where next for Iraola? · 27 May 2026 podcast

So he ended up going back and having a really fantastic season with Raul Vallecano this season.

But the rest of this coaching staff was just made up of basically Bournemouth footballing legends.

You're Tommy Elphix, you're Sean Coopers, you're Simon Francis, etc.

And in that respect, you know, that's a remarkable turn of events as well.

So, yeah, I think that what you're getting if you're bringing in Iriola is not just an innovative sort of tactical guy.

It's someone who actually will make a group of players function, make the group of players be better than the sum of their parts, improve those players.

And, you know, that's just a dream for a lot of these clubs.

It's maybe worth saying as well that we're undergoing at the moment what I think is a bit of a tactical revolution across European football.

You know, in many respects, it's hard to know where things will end up going.

But I think you can make the argument that Iraola is at the forefront of that tactical revolution.

And so as a result,

The thing that I always come up against when people ask me about the future of Eriola is, can he do it at a big club?

Isn't he just a lower club, sort of underdog football manager?

And how will he survive at these big clubs?

But I think what we're seeing in modern football is a shift towards these more...

direct chaotic um high pressing approaches and i think there's an argument to be made that you know if you get if you get this right then there's a potential trajectory of for iraola where he does something like klopp where he goes to a bigger club and he's able to sort of evolve his approach to to have yes okay maybe still chaos at the forefront but still enough control that you can challenge right at the the top of the european game so i think a lot of clubs maybe won't be thinking in those terms but i think it could be a an unintended consequence of someone picking him up

I don't think so, no.

I mean, I'm sure what's happening right now is that Iriola is just listening to options.

He seems to be pretty happy to hear teams present their projects to him and see what will happen.

So I'm sure there will be teams that will be added to that group because he seems pretty open to just exploring all the possibilities.

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