Jon Mackenzie

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

It's also worth saying he has a good chance of being at another club who have European football by the end of the summer.

So it's worth keeping that in mind.

I think there's a degree of risk staying with Bournemouth and going through the Europa League.

We've seen a lot of teams in the Premier League in recent seasons go into these European competitions and not have good performances in the league itself.

I think there's still the possibility that that could throw you.

So yeah, I think, just to come back to what Jack was saying before, I think the stepping stone approach is probably the best one for him.

If he goes to a Leverkusen or he goes to a Milan, I think he'll have the space in those leagues to be a little bit more experimental.

He'll have the space to develop aspects of his game that he still needs to develop.

He's not the finished product.

And, you know, we talked about Klopp before and Klopp had that period at Dortmund where he was able to, you know, develop from the coach that he was at Mainz, for example.

And I think this would be a kind of comparative step for Iriola.

I think he would be very competitive both in the Bundesliga and Serie A. It would give him a space, I think, to be able to experiment a little bit more with maybe playing a slightly different brand of football.

You can't do that.

In the Premier League, it's just a completely unforgiving league.

We've just come out of a season where anyone can beat anyone.

It's a brutal league.

And the expectation is if you don't have success immediately, then you're somehow not a good manager.

We've seen Arna Slot go from, oh, what an incredible coach winning the league in his first season to everyone questioning whether or not he has success.

any sort of managerial credentials.

And it's such a high level of pressure in that league.

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