Koeman balances on a transfer voluntarily missed by Laporta

Ronald Koeman will not leave an indelible mark on Barça. Between August 2020 and October 2021, the Dutch technician will not have succeeded in raising the bar, to finally leave when he had become the real Turkish head of the supporters, leaving the team in a very sad ninth place in La Liga. A year later, the one who is currently unemployed returned to this complicated period of his career, and in particular his relations with his president Joan Laporta. He reveals in particular the reason for the aborted transfer of Georginio Wijnaldum, close to the Catalans, but who had finally signed for PSG.

“The president wanted to piss me off”

“I tried to sign Wijnaldum, but it failed because the president wanted to piss me off more than signing the player. He delayed the operation and eventually Wijnaldum signed for Paris Saint-Germain. Otherwise, he would have played at Camp Nou” he told the Dutch media AD. What the Dutch international could not confirm in the past: “We negotiated for several weeks with Barcelona, ​​recognized Wijnaldum in the summer of 2021. But the club did not take the last step, then Paris Saint -Germain arrived and was quicker. It was hard to say no to Barca, they were one of the first clubs to be interested in me and they are one of the biggest.” Obviously, Joan Laporta was really not a fan of Koeman.