by Things are not working out at Chelsea. After the pharaonic outlay of Todd Boehly in recent transfer windows and the arrival of Mauricio Pochettino as a great leader on the bench, the Blues continue to accumulate failures on the pitch. After receiving a bath from Wolverhampton at Stamford Bridge last Sunday, The London team fell to eleventh place in the Premier League and are closer to relegation than to European positions.
The bad feelings on the field of play are making things move in the officeswith rumors that point to a possible departure of the Argentine coach if the situation is not turned around immediately. The club’s goal before starting the season was none other than Champions League positions, a goal that now seems like a utopia.
The name that is on the table.
According to Zona Deportiva, There is a name that Chelsea managers have on the table as a replacement for Pochettino on the bench, one of the revelation coaches that season and whose team performs day after day in one of the most competitive leagues on the continent.
Xabi Alonso is the chosen one. The Spaniard leads a Bayer Leverkusen team that seeks to achieve a miracle in the Bundesliga and snatch the hegemony of the throne from Bayern Munich, which has lifted the title for the past 10 consecutive editions.
Bayer Leverkusen coach, Xabi Alonso. / Harry Langer/dpa
Alonso knows the Premier League very well, and he was one of the pillars of Liverpool at the beginning of the century that lifted that famous Champions League in Istanbul, overcoming a 3-0 deficit.. The midfielder seems to have transferred his knowledge of the green to the blackboard, and is already one of the great ‘candies’ for the giants of Europe, who see in him a leader for many years.
Despite the insistence of the ‘blues’, Liverpool are also in the race to acquire his services, and the previous link between both parties could be crucial in resolving their future. “What happens at the end of the season… I neither know nor care right now” Xabi Alonso stated a few weeks ago about his destiny.
