Former Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman has hit out at membership's president Joan Laporta for not giving him assist all through his tenure at Nou Camp.
Koeman changed into sacked as Barcelona coach in November 2021 after 14 months in charge after the membership lost to Rayo Vallecano, leaving the Catalans ninth at the log.&#one hundred sixty;
"They didn’t provide me the time they gave the new teach, Xavi. It’s still painful for me," he said.
"I changed into operating with a whole lot of injuries. Now Pedri is again in shape, and Ousmane Dembélé ... You can see the entirety."
"Laporta informed me one thousand times that Xavi would now not be his instruct, due to the fact he lacked experience. I became no longer Laporta’s educate. I had that feeling from the first moment, after the elections, there was no click. That essential assist from above became lacking."
"The essential factor became now not money for me. I clearly wanted to be successful as a train at Barcelona, to do the entirety I could, however I found out that Laporta desired to get rid of me due to the fact I wasn’t appointed via him."
"It become on the insistence of the club control that I agreed to the departure of a few players to put the finances so as. But then while you see that they entice a person for fifty five million euros shortly after letting Lionel Messi go…Then you marvel if there wasn’t some thing else going on. Why did Messi need to depart?"
Club legend Xavi became in the end appointed to update Koeman.&#a hundred and sixty;
