(Reuters) – Barcelona ought to have sacked coach Ronald Koeman L1N2RN3BY earlier than Wednesday’s 1-0 LaLiga defeat at Rayo Vallecano, membership president Joan Laporta mentioned on Friday.
The Dutchman was fired after Barca misplaced their second La Liga sport in a row following their 2-1 residence defeat by Actual Madrid within the Clasico on Sunday.
“Trying on the state of affairs as of in the present day, it most likely would have been the perfect choice (to terminate Koeman’s contract earlier than),” Laporta instructed a information convention to current Sergi Barjuan as caretaker supervisor L4N2RO47P.
“Now it’s simple to say that however which are circumstances that led us to attend. We thought that Koeman wanted extra time. I take full accountability however the state of affairs acquired to some extent that was unsustainable.”
Laporta indicated that talks with 41-year-old former Barcelona nice Xavi Hernandez, the supervisor of Qatar’s Al-Sadd, are superior however no settlement had but been reached.
“He is a good friend and I all the time thought that at some point Xavi was going to be Barcelona’s coach. It is a precedence in his life. If we attain an settlement, he’ll have our full help”, he mentioned.
Barcelona are ninth in LaLiga with 15 factors from 10 video games, 9 factors adrift of leaders Actual Sociedad and 6 behind second-placed Actual Madrid. They host Alaves on Saturday.
(Reporting by Fernando Kallas in Madrid; Enhancing by Ken Ferris)
