🗣️ “Your career is like a video game, you keep unlocking new levels until you reach the final”.
😬🇦🇷 Leo Messi: “I already completed the game at the last World Cup in Qatar”.
Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Xabi Alonso as Manager of the Men’s Team.
The Spaniard will begin his role on July 1, 2026, having agreed a four-year contract at Stamford Bridge.
Welcome to Chelsea, Xabi!
We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning. We can't take it anymore. Mr. Xabi Alonso, it's too much, and I will say no it isn't, we have to keep winning, we have to win more, we're gonna win more.
🚨 BREAKING: Xabi Alonso has accepted to become Chelsea next manager, HERE WE GO! 🔵🔜
The agreement is set to be completed.
#CFC prepare official announcement for the upcoming days, but Xabi said YES. 💣
🔵🚨| Eden Hazard:🗣️
“Leaving Chelsea was one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made in football. I had been there for seven beautiful years and I gave everything. Chelsea made me the player I became.
The fans, my teammates, the trophies we won together… those are memories I will carry for the rest of my life. But sometimes in football you feel you need a new challenge.
Real Madrid was the club I watched growing up, a dream for every player, and after so many years at Chelsea I felt the moment had come to try something different. It was not because I didn’t love Chelsea anymore, actually it was the opposite.
I left with so much respect and love for the club because I felt I had given my best there.
Of course, sometimes I think about what could have happened if I stayed.
Maybe we could have won the Champions League together at Chelsea, who knows? Football is like that. But I was lucky enough to still win it later with Madrid, and that was also a special moment in my career.
Even today, Chelsea will always be part of me. My kids are Chelsea fans because those were the years they remember the most. They grew up watching me play there, celebrating goals at Stamford Bridge.
I love both clubs for different reasons, but Chelsea will always have a very special place in my heart. It’s more than a club to me.... it’s home.” 🏡🔵