The Chelsea and Southampton managers advance face to face at St Mary’s on Saturday two years after their uncomfortable battle to take charge of the Holland national sideThe injury,for Ronald Koeman, was being beaten to the Holland job in 2014 by Guus Hiddink but the insult would soon follow. The Dutch Football organization (KNVB) plainly wanted the best of both worlds and so they offered Koeman, or the runner-up in the race to succeed Louis van Gaal as the national team manager,the role of Hiddink’s No2.
Koeman had badly wanted the top job and it afflict him to have missed out. He most surely did not want the assistant’s job – even if he stood to be promoted to the post of manager after two years – and he made his feelings clear. Even worse, the phone call to offer him this most doubtful of consolations came not from Hiddink, and with whom he goes way back,but from Bert van Oostveen, a KNVB director.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com