{"id":900684,"date":"2026-04-17T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/900684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:54:28","slug":"bournemouth-closing-in-on-marco-rose-as-andoni-iraola-replacement-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/900684\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth closing in on Marco Rose as Andoni Iraola replacement &#8211; sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors byline-authors\">\n<li class=\"single-author mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776430468_144_r552405_3_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Tom HamiltonApr 17, 2026, 10:41 AM<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2011<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British &amp; Irish Lions tours<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Marco Rose is set to become the new Bournemouth boss.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team\/_\/id\/349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bournemouth<\/a> are closing in on Marco Rose as their new manager, sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Andoni Iraola announced on Monday he would leave Bournemouth at the end of the season, and sources told ESPN both Rose and Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna were on the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> club&#8217;s radar as potential replacements.<\/p>\n<p>McKenna is under contract with Ipswich through to 2028, while Rose is available having left <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3f4b2640-8af5-9785-93d5-363cbdb5a2f6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=11420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RB Leipzig<\/a> last year. Both are much-admired by the Bournemouth hierarchy, but it&#8217;s Rose who appears to have emerged as their preferred candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have told ESPN the club is in discussions with Rose on personal terms. Rose will bring a wealth of experience having coached RB Salzburg, Borussia Monchengladbach, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6cdd01c7-3938-6f1d-0c24-c7cf7da68d2b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borussia Dortmund<\/a> and Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p>Iraola joined Bournemouth in June 2023 and has received plenty of praise for the job he has done there.<\/p>\n<p>He said on Friday he is unsure on where his next move will be, but he hasn&#8217;t left Bournemouth with another job lined up. The 43-year-old has been linked with the soon-to-be vacant post at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"748c6251-7239-2c15-2b2f-dfde911bbe55\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athletic Club<\/a> in Bilbao, while other Premier League teams would also be interested in his services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/48484611\/andoni-iraola-premier-league-bournemouth-spain-laliga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Iraola will be highly coveted in summer&#8217;s managerial merry-go-round<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/48496517\/premier-league-top-50-ranked-best-players-2026-liverpool-arsenal-man-united-chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League Top 50: Ranking the best players of the season with a month to go<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t been a clear decision,&#8221; Iraola said on Friday. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been talking to the club about the situation and they were aware this could happen. There is no one main reason. The decision is taken is because I don&#8217;t want to risk losing the feeling of satisfaction I have of the three seasons here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are human beings get tired and I decided it was the right moment to put an end to this journey which for me has been really special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rose, 49, prefers a high-intensity pressing style and that continuation with a system similar to Iraola&#8217;s appeals to Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>He also brings experience of having a coached a club in the Champions League and the hope is the deal will be done in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom HamiltonApr 17, 2026, 10:41 AM Close \u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2011\u2022\u00a0Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-900684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116420154591712908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}