{"id":908809,"date":"2026-05-28T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/very-good-appointment-former-midfielder-gustavo-poyet-praises-chelsea-board-for-appointing-xabi-alonso-video\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:19:06","slug":"very-good-appointment-former-midfielder-gustavo-poyet-praises-chelsea-board-for-appointing-xabi-alonso-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/very-good-appointment-former-midfielder-gustavo-poyet-praises-chelsea-board-for-appointing-xabi-alonso-video\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVery good appointment\u201d \u2013 Former midfielder Gustavo Poyet praises Chelsea board for appointing Xabi Alonso (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gustavo Poyet, who spent four years at Chelsea as a player and now manages Saudi Pro League side Al-Khaleej, believes his former club have made a good move by appointing Xabi Alonso as their new manager.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cVery good appointment, very diligent from the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gus Poyet shares his thoughts on Chelsea hiring Xabi Alonso as their new manager \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bffGSmzzIm\">pic.twitter.com\/bffGSmzzIm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/2059648959166001237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/very-good-appointment-former-midfielder-gustavo-poyet-praises-chelsea-board-for-appointing-xabi-alonso-video\/400115\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Veselin Trajkovic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Gustavo Poyet, who spent four years at Chelsea as a player and now manages Saudi Pro League side Al-Khaleej, believes his former club have made a good move by appointing Xabi Alonso as their new manager. \u201cVery good appointment, very diligent from the board.\u201d Gus Poyet shares his thoughts on Chelsea hiring Xabi Alonso [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31532,42928,2005],"tags":[5526,5826],"class_list":["post-908809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-very","category-appointment","category-soccer","tag-appointment","tag-very"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}