Alfred Schreuder does not look back with a happy feeling on his period as head coach of FC Twente. Ronald Koeman’s current assistant at Barcelona was, in his own words, strongly opposed by people within the organization of the Tukkers. The last months in the Grolsch Veste were even ‘terrible’ in Schreuder’s view.
“I don’t want to say much about that myself,” says Schreuder in the online football talk show FootballTime. “I thought that the game was really good, especially in the first season (2013/14, ed.). And after that it was a bit less, but it was also good in phases. Only, people forget that we always have fifty to sixty percent of our selection. Then you always need a few weeks, even a few months. But from the start you saw that the pressure was on, because we supposedly had to become champions. But that was not realistic. “
“When I look back on that period, the last months were really terrible,” continues Schreuder looking back at his employment at Twente as a coach. “That was not nice, really not nice. Because it was played like that and I also have the idea that it was done from the inside. I’m almost sure it was. It was done from the club to get me away And I also said that to those people, they will never succeed. I’ve been through too much to walk away myself.” However, Schreuder ran into a problem: ‘Joop Munsterman was gone, so I had no one to back him up. I felt that on all sides.”
Despite everything, Schreuder does not hold a grudge towards Twente. “It remains a great club and of course they remain great supporters. Only in that period something was created against us, because we were from Joop Munsterman. But Twente has been a great period and I have learned a lot there, also for the future again. We have become champions, twice the Johan Cruijff Scale, won the cup. And we have been through everything. And when I see what happened at Twente after that, I don’t think it has gotten much better,” said the assistant trainer from Barcelona.