Bournemouth’s manager, Andoni Iraola, pays little attention to rumors that associated him with Real Madrid, and insisted that his only focus is on tomorrow’s game against wolves.
Reports in Spain last week pointed out that Madrid is interested in a close interest in the former Rayo Vallecano boss Iraola because at the end of the season they consider a replacement for Carlo Ancelotti.
The 42-year-old shaped Bournemouth for a place in the Champions League of the next season despite limited budget and a victory against wolves against fourth place in the Premier League.
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Madrid made this aware of this, but Iraola was not ready to fuel speculation if she was asked about the interest of the European Champions today.
He said, “You know, you can’t control things that you speak outside of here. But we focus on the next game and the situation is really the same as in the past week.
“I have been a player for many years and as a coach in this shop in this shop, and I know how these things work and what is important and what has no meaning. And for me the most important thing this week is the game that we will play against wolves tomorrow. That will be demanding, and it will not know whether it is a key game because it is always an important game, the next. “
Time to evaluate, come later- Iraola
Bournemouth has lost only one of their last 15 games in all competitions – and that an unfortunate defeat against Liverpool – but Iraola was not interested in the praise that is currently coming up.
He added: “I don’t see it that way.
“For me, these things that you analyze or evaluate them or you look at them at the end of the season. We are fine, it is true. We play quite consistently well this season, but we will see where we are finished in the end.
“It is good to be in a good position at a good moment, but they don’t give them anything in March. You know it is at the end of the season you can reach, or you can see how we did it and we will see when we are there. Now is not the moment for me to analyze or evaluate or nothing of these things. “
Carefully with wolves
The wolves have improved under vitor Pereira and Iraola expects not to play an easy game in the vitality stadium despite the low position of the visitors in the table.
“If you analyze the last, I think eight games played you, you basically played all the teams at the top of the table and they were always competitive and tomorrow I expect a very difficult game,” he said .
“I think you have very good individuality. If you have seen your defense figures in particular lately, the chances that you have recently been admitted to the teams, against which you have played, have been very solid. “
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