Bournemouth have confirmed Marco Rose as their new supervisor on a three-year deal on the Vitality Stadium.
Andoni Iraola will depart Bournemouth on the finish of this season (Picture: Getty Photos)
Bournemouth have named Marco Rose as the person to succeed Andoni Iraola on the helm. The German has put pen to paper on a three-year deal on the Vitality Stadium. Rose will formally take the reins in the summertime, although the settlement has been reached early to allow each the incoming supervisor and the membership to organize for subsequent season, following Iraola’s affirmation that he qill be departing.
The Spaniard revealed final week that he’ll depart the Cherries when his contract runs out on the finish of the marketing campaign, drawing the curtain on a extremely profitable three-year tenure. Iraola steered Bournemouth to twelfth place in his debut season, registering a then-club document of 48 factors. The Cherries completed ninth final season with a document haul of 56 factors, whereas additionally progressing to the FA Cup quarter-finals. Regardless of their want to maintain the Spaniard on the membership, Bournemouth had anticipated this final result and have wasted no time in securing his alternative as a part of their long-term imaginative and prescient.
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The membership’s assertion learn: “AFC Bournemouth is delighted to verify the appointment of Marco Rose because the membership’s new head coach on a three-year contract, which can start following the conclusion of the 2025/26 season. The 49-year-old arrives on the south coast with a wealth of expertise on the highest stage of European soccer, having managed Purple Bull Salzburg, Borussia Monchengladbach, Borussia Dortmund, and RB Leipzig.
“The membership’s rapid focus stays firmly on ending the present marketing campaign as strongly as potential, with the gamers and workers persevering with to indicate full dedication to reaching constructive outcomes and constructing on the present 13-game unbeaten run.
“Everybody at AFC Bournemouth appears to be like ahead to welcoming Marco to Vitality Stadium as he begins his function as head coach in the summertime.” Rose has been and not using a membership since his dismissal by RB Leipzig in March 2025.
Bournemouth at present occupy eighth place within the Premier League desk, stage on factors with sixth-placed Chelsea, within the midst of a exceptional 13-game unbeaten run.
Iraola has been linked with a return to former aspect Athletic Bilbao, in addition to the emptiness at Manchester United. Nevertheless, talking final week, he was adamant that his determination to go away Bournemouth was “not about another membership”.
He mentioned: “The choice was not about another membership. There was no different membership concerned, it was about persevering with right here or not persevering with right here.
Marco Rose would be the subsequent Bournemouth supervisor (Picture: Getty Photos)
“I do not know what I will do subsequent season. I do not know if I will coach a group, a membership, coach a nationwide group, coach on this continent, I am not going to educate. I don’t know what is going on to occur.
“I haven’t got any rush to comprehend it. I’ve taken a giant determination for me now on this second. Now I wish to give attention to what is going to occur in these six video games. It’s going to be huge for us. There’s going to be time to assume, if we have now to assume, on one thing else.”
Earlier than he added: “It has been a call that has taken me a variety of time to take, it hasn’t been a transparent determination. At all times throughout this course of, this season, I have been speaking to the membership concerning the conditions, they have been very conscious this might occur.
“There may be not all the time one major motive. The choice I’ve taken is as a result of in all probability I do not wish to threat the sensation I’ve proper now of satisfaction of those three seasons. You attempt to envision your self in a potential fourth season, a potential fifth season and all the pieces prices extra.
“We as human beings get uninterested in watching the identical phases. I suppose I made a decision this was the suitable second to place an finish to this journey that for me has been actually particular.”
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