Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola pays little attention to rumors that link him to Real Madrid, and insisted that his only focus is on tomorrow’s game against Wolves.
Reports in Spain have suggested last week that Madrid is very interested in the former Rayo Vallecano -Baas Iraola, because they consider a replacement for Carlo Ancelotti at the end of the season.
The 42-year-old has formed Bournemouth as real contenders for a place in next season’s Champions League despite a limited budget and a win over Wolves tomorrow she will go to fourth place in the Premier League.
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Madrid warned that, but Iraola was not willing to feed the speculation when he was asked about the interest of the European champions today.
He said: ‘You know, you can’t have control over things that you speak outside of this. But we focus on the next game and really the situation is exactly the same as the past week.
“I have been in this company in this industry for years as a player and as a coach, and I know how these things work and what is important and what has no importance. And for me the most important thing is that this week is the game that we play against Wolves tomorrow. That will be demanding, and it will be one, don’t know if a key game because it is always an important game, the next. “
Time to evaluate comes later-raola
Bournemouth has only lost one of their last 15 games in all competitions – and that an unfortunate defeat for Liverpool – but Iraola was not interested in the compliments that were currently on his way.
He added: “I don’t see it that way.
“For me, these things that you analyze whether you are evaluating whether you look at them at the end of the season. We are doing well, it’s true. This season we play quite consistent, but we will see where we end at the end.
“It’s good to be at a good time, at the moment in a good position, but they don’t give you anything in March. You know, it is at the end of the season when you can reach or you can see how we did it and we will see when we are there, not now. This is not the time for me to analyze or evaluate or nothing of these things. “
Wary of wolves
Wolves have been improved under Vitor Pereira and Iraola does not expect a simple game in the Vitality Stadium despite the low position of the visitors in the table.
“If you analyze the last, I think eight games they have played, they actually played all the teams at the top of the table and they have always been competitive and tomorrow I expect a very difficult game,” he said.
“I think they have very good individuality. If you have mainly seen their defensive figures lately, the opportunities they have recently admitted against the teams they played against is that they have been very solid defensive. “
