Former FC Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman returned to his adventure in Catalonia on Thursday with bitterness and a certain resentment. The Dutchman is particularly angry with his former president, Joan Laporta, for various reasons including his lack of support and in particular the departure of Lionel Messi.
Koeman has held a certain resentment since his departure from Bara.
For the first time since his victory over FC Barcelona on October 28, Ronald Koeman returned to his Catalan adventure on Thursday. More than four months following his departure, the Batavian retains immense regrets, but also shows resentment towards the Blaugrana management and especially the president Joan Laporta.
Koeman and veut Laporta
Still also due to his end of career, the 58-year-old coach fades away a painful memory in the columns of the Dutch daily AD. It was my most difficult time as a coach. (…) it hurt to watch the matches, it was still too fresh. Now I can see them once more. But you won’t see me at Camp Nou de sitt. I can’t do that yet, at least not with this president. I can’t act like nothing happened. He didn’t give me the time he gave Xaviblew the former Blaugrana coach, particularly bitter.
It’s always painful for me. Laporta had told me a thousand times that Xavi would not be his coach because he lacked experience. But he needed a shield, someone to hide behind. I was not Laporta’s coach. I had this feeling from the very first moment, following the elections. There was no click. This necessary support from above was lacking. The important thing was not the money for me. I really wanted to succeed as a Barcelona coach, to do everything I might. But I realized that Laporta wanted to get rid of me because he hadn’t named meKoeman added.
The Dutchman felt cheated
Upset once morest Laporta, the native of Zaandam particularly regrets the reversal of strategy since his departure. While the ass leaders asked him to operate an austerity cure (with the departures of Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann in particular) until last October, the latter proved to be spendthrift in January for their new coach, Xavi. I worked with a lot of injuries. Now Pedri is back in form, like Ousmane Dembl… You can see it all. Every coach needs time and patience from the board. (…) The recruits (Daniel Alves, Ferran Torres, Adama Traor and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang), I would have liked them toounderlined the former coach of the Netherlands.
And the one who had been forced to lose Messi, moreover for free, at the start of the season feels logically cheated. It was at the insistence of the club management that I accepted the departure of certain players to restore order in the finances. But then when you see that they lure someone for 55 million euros (Ferran Torres) shortly following dropping Lionel Messi… Then you wonder if something else was going on. Why did Messi have to leave?, asks Koeman. A question that must be running through the minds of many Barcelona supporters.
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