Andoni Iraola: 'Learning from NBA, celebrating the goal more important than the contract'
Before the Premier League, the Spanish coach shared the secret to helping him achieve success at Bournemouth. Andoni Iraola learned how to manage players from NBA. He encouraged players to celebrate passionate and not important to the short contract but only focused on the yard performance.
Not afraid of losing stars
“When we signed a contract with the player, I was like a their assistant,” Bournemouth's coach Andoni Iraola said. He is sharing the process of rebuilding the squad, which has been lost after the end of the 9th place, also the season with the highest score of the club in the Premier League history.
Bournemouth sold center -back Dean Huijsen to Real Madrid, left -back Milos Kerkez to Liverpool and lost goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga after the end of the loan contract from Chelsea. Other farewells are expected to occur. The latest is the central defender Illia Zabarnyi has joined PSG for a fee of up to 66 million euros.
Iraola lost the defensive frame that helped Bournemouth win against Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United last season. However, sitting in the meeting room of a hotel in Chicago, the Spanish coach is still more calm than many colleagues in the same situation.
At Bournemouth, the club operates according to a separate mechanism: Iraola focuses on training and preparation for the player, while the recruitment is under the Tiago Pinto football president and the technical director Simon Francis. Therefore, he considered himself a “assistant” in the contract.
This summer, Bournemouth has quickly replaced: recruiting goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic from Chelsea with Gi & Aacute
