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ShutUpPatrik said:
Iraola may well leave Bournemouth this summer. But it is way more likely to be back home.

Ernesto Valverde's contract at Bilbao is ending this summer. Iraola played for Bilbao for 12 seasons and has declared it his dream job.

If Bilbao come calling, he's gone.
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I'd happily take either of them - Valverde would be a bit of an adjustment from the "Tottenham way", but the team is crying out for coaching: a solid defensive structure, adaptable approach to their oppo, and direct attacking football which would suit our current squad (although he does tend to use high and wide wingers). Nowhere near the hard pressing Ange expected the players to carry out week in week out either.

This is a decent tactical summary: Controlled Directness: Ernesto Valverde's Athletic Club - Analytics FC
 
Richard Arlison said:
Why wouldn't he? Where he has Bournemouth is as high as they can go.

The only reason he wouldn't is if he is being promised the Bilbao job in the summer
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I don't think he'll take the Bilbao job this early in his career considering he's already in European spots in the biggest league in the world and probably has a similar amount of buzz around him as Alonso. You have basically no control of squad depth issues there which always hamstrings them when they get in Europe, they can't battle on 3 fronts effectively with the Cantera policy outside of having an absolute golden generation come through. Not to mention by the time he actually gets there chances are someone will have bought Nico Williams off them and they're gonna be fucking knackered when he goes, think his current deal runs for 2 more years so likely to be a lot of clubs on alert for him in summer.
 
8andA1/2Peppers said:
When Brendan Rodgers won the cup with Leicester. He would've been seen as a coup by any club that got him out of Leicester. He stayed too long and became a punchline again.

De Zerbi at the end of his first season was the hottest manager around. By the end of his second, the Brighton fans were getting tired of him..

The point being that Iraola is as hot as he's going to get while at Bournemouth.. There's only one direction it goes from here. If he gets an offer to a bigger club now and Bournemouth are receptive. He should take it. While he's seen as a coup and can essentially write his own ticket.. Whether he wants to show respect to Bournemouth and wait for the seasons end is another matter.
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Exactly. It's the type of logic his agent will be thinking with. They don't give a fuck about the things fans think.
 
Shadydan said:
Another case of one eyed football fans living on cloud 9, as if Iarola is gonna abandon his project now to come and firefight at Spurs now.

The same people will tell you we're in a relegation fight and that we have horrible owners but yeah whatever delusion world people live in I guess :confused:
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I'm not sold on Iarola (yet) but do think it's not an entirely impossible scenario in which we triple/quadruple his wage and give him a now or never decision like Amorim had when United came calling.

I mean his contract is up in June anyway and he hasn't renewed yet.
 
Mostly wrong said:
I don't think he'll take the Bilbao job this early in his career considering he's already in European spots in the biggest league in the world and probably has a similar amount of buzz around him as Alonso. You have basically no control of squad depth issues there which always hamstrings them when they get in Europe, they can't battle on 3 fronts effectively with the Cantera policy outside of having an absolute golden generation come through. Not to mention by the time he actually gets there chances are someone will have bought Nico Williams off them and they're gonna be fucking knackered when he goes, think his current deal runs for 2 more years so likely to be a lot of clubs on alert for him in summer.
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He's Basque.

He also has nowhere close to the hype that Alonso has around him because he's nowhere near as good.
 
kingdawson said:
I'm not sold on Iarola (yet) but do think it's not an entirely impossible scenario in which we triple/quadruple his wage and give him a now or never decision like Amorim had when United came calling.

I mean his contract is up in June anyway and he hasn't renewed yet.
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I'm really not sold on Iraola at all and I've been watching his teams longer than most on this forum.

It's all very "flavour of the month".
 
kingdawson said:
I'm not sold on Iarola (yet) but do think it's not an entirely impossible scenario in which we triple/quadruple his wage and give him a now or never decision like Almirom had when United came calling.

I mean his contract is up in June anyway and he hasn't renewed yet.
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It's not like I think Iraola is the person we should go for, I just get tickled by people saying we could never get him like it should be such an impossible task for a club of our size with our resources
 
kingdawson said:
I'm not sold on Iarola (yet) but do think it's not an entirely impossible scenario in which we triple/quadruple his wage and give him a now or never decision like Amorim had when United came calling.

I mean his contract is up in June anyway and he hasn't renewed yet.
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Amorim going from the Superliga to the Premier League and Man Utd is a massive step up, Utd we're not, also Utd have been after Amorim before they won the FA Cup.

Also he will get backed over there, they backed Ten Hag with £600m

I don't think we're as a big a draw that some fans think we are, certainly to other managers.
 
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