Ronald Koeman was dismissed as coach of FC Barcelona after his team’s defeat in Vallecas. The situation was already untenable and on the plane back to Barcelona, Joan Laporta made the decision to dispense with the services of the Dutchman.
But this is not the first time that Koeman has been removed from office early. Let’s see from which other teams the former Barça coach was dismissed.
Ronald Koeman’s passage through Valencia was anything but calm, and there are still many Valencian players who remember that disastrous stage. On October 31, 2007 he took over the team and his decisions were more than controversial since he gave prominence to young people but decided to do without three veterans such as David Albelda, Santiago Cañizares and Miguel Ángel Angulo with whom he had more than one run-in.
His attempt to vary the team’s course did not work. And while in the League he spent the whole year hovering around the lower positions of the table, he managed to win the Copa del Rey, an insufficient title to calm a hobby that was positioned against him. After losing 5-1 at San Mamés, he was dismissed at the end of April 2008.
After a year away from the bench, in the summer of 2009 he returned to the Netherlands where he had achieved so many successes and became the coach of AZ Alkmaar. Koeman inherited a team that had just been Eredivisie champions and left it last in the group in the Champions League and sixth in the league with no options to fight for the title already in December.
After being defeated 1-2 before Vitesse, he was dismissed before Christmas. Finally the Alkmaar would finish the league in fifth position.
After two good experiences at the helm of Feyenoord and Southampton, bad fortune again took hold with Koeman, this time at Everton. In 2016 the Toffes paid their buyout clause of 6.3 million euros but it was very expensive.
After a promising start to the season, the team went flat and finished the Premier League in seventh place but the worst was yet to come. The following season the team had a bad start, in the Premier it was in relegation places and in the Europa League it only added one point out of 9 possible in the first three games. For this reason, at the end of October, they decided to remove him from office.
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