Where next for Iraola?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
After ending the season 18 games unbeaten, Andoni Iraola leaves Bournemouth with Europa League football to come.
But without a job lined up, has he left the Cherries too soon?
Host: Adam Leventhal
With: Jon Mackenzie & Jack Pitt-Brooke
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
Producer: Guy Clarke, Jay Beale & Nick Thomson
Videographer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Hi there and welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Adam Leventhal. |
| 0:08.9 | So after ending the season, 18 games unbeaten and Doni Iriola leaves Bournemouth with Europa |
| 0:16.5 | League football to come. But without a job lined up, has he left the cherries too soon? |
| 0:24.1 | Well, alongside me for this one, John McKenzie and Jack Pittbrook. Slightly warm still in the UK, |
| 0:33.0 | slightly red-faced all of us. so bear with us on this one. |
| 0:42.7 | Bournemouth, after all their hard work this season, finished sixth, giving them Europa League football. |
| 0:43.8 | It was very nearly Champions League football. |
| 0:45.7 | It could have been on the last day. |
| 0:48.0 | John, first to you, it is remarkable considering where they were, what, just under 20 years |
| 0:52.8 | ago. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah, 2008 in League 2, very close to |
| 0:57.6 | actually dropping out of the English leagues altogether. So yeah, an incredible turn of events. |
| 1:03.2 | And, you know, I mean, we say 20 years, but it was only the point at which I Raola arrived, |
| 1:08.2 | where they narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League. |
| 1:11.2 | And it was quite a controversial appointment at the time because Gary O'Neill had saved them from relegation. |
| 1:16.9 | And then they made the decision to bring in I raola. |
| 1:20.2 | And yeah, I guess the rest is history. |
| 1:22.5 | And Jack, obviously they had a say in the title race as well. |
| 1:26.5 | They beat Arsenal back in April, then they held |
| 1:29.1 | Manchester City to that one-all draw which secured the title for Arsenal. How much of you |
| 1:33.5 | enjoyed watching them this season? I love watching them play. I think they've got so much energy. |
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