Xabi Alonso is expected to be announced on Sunday and will begin his new role on July 1.
He will carry the title of 'manager' not head coach. This is a recognition of his experience and track record, including winning the Bundesliga with Leverkusen.
Alonso was a carefully considered choice by Chelsea's leadership with his coaching quality, trophy pedigree, character, emotional intelligence and leadership all noted during the process.
Alonso is viewed as calm, tactical and capable of building a high-performance culture at a key time for the club.
Chelsea feel their project is heading into a new phase from this summer.
There is an acknowledgement within Chelsea they had to get this appointment right as well as that mistakes have been made this season. Lessons have been learned.
The objective remains getting the club back to competing for the biggest honours, and back in the #UCL.
Alonso will work extremely closely with the sporting directors and owners including in recruitment and squad planning.
Understand Alonso believes the squad is already talented but there are areas to improve this summer.
Chelsea will seek multiple starters this window, including a new centre-back, and will consider signing Premier League ready players.🇪🇸
Have you got a chance to look at the data I sent you? It's mostly just numbers I typed out in random order (89.230, 22228.1, stuff like that) but I was hoping maybe we could make money off of it somehow
The White House is completely silent as BBC confirms a consistent pattern of massive financial spikes occurring just minutes before Donald Trump makes market moving announcements. The administration is facing severe allegations of illegally profiteering off inside knowledge.
.@PeteHegseth, my grandfather served in World War 2. He carried a small, piece of paper in his pocket the whole time, on which he wrote his favorite Bible verse. It would mean so much to our family, especially my grandfather, if you could recite this verse at your next speech:
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." — Jesus Christ
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
@achristovichh@samcehrlich Yeah community notes like this are so lame tho tbh
Rothstein clearly has “bits” he does whenever a certain coach wins, crazy moment happens, etc
This is clearly just a running joke he has, community note feels very “ermm ackshually”