Ehe Dutch coach, who left this season of the FC Barcelona due to poor results and was replaced by Xavi Hernández, speak in the middle ‘Algemeen Dagblad’ to give his version of what happened in Barcelona.
Return to Camp Nou: “You won’t see me at the Camp Nou for a while, I can’t do that yet. With this president I can’t pretend that nothing happened.”
Lex Collado in MARCA: “With Koeman I lost the desire to train”
About Javier: “They didn’t give me the time they gave the new coach, Xavi. It’s still painful for me. I was working with a lot of injuries. Now Pedri is fit again, and Ousmane Dembl… You can see everything.”
Ruud Gullit: “I think Barcelona was unfair to Koeman”.
The loss of Messi: “It was at the insistence of the club management that I agreed to the departure of some players to get the finances in order. But then when you see someone brought in for €55m shortly after letting go of Lionel Messi… Then You wonder if there wasn’t something else going on. Why did Messi have to leave?”
Without patience: “Every coach needs time and patience from the board. I would have liked those signings too. But I’m happy for the club, as things are going better now, and for the players. It’s nice to see Frenkie de Jong play.” good old-fashioned football, it has such quality.
Remarks in Laporta: “I was not Laporta’s coach. I had that feeling from the first moment, after the elections there was no click. That necessary support from above was lacking. The important thing was not the money for me. I really wanted to succeed as a coach in Barcelona, to do everything I could, but I realized that Laporta wanted to get rid of me because I wasn’t designated by him”.
A clear message from the president: “Laporta told me a thousand times that Xavi would not be his coach, because he lacked experience.”
Current situation: “I have agreed with Rob Jansen that we will see the possibilities this summer, if there is something interesting, something nice, but now I am not worried about that at all, we will see.”
