FC Basel is thinking about replacing trainer Patrick Rahmen with Alfred Schreuder, report kicker and The Telegraph Thursday afternoon. After his departure from Barcelona, Schreuder is out of work, but that could change soon. However, Basel does not want to comment on the rumors for the time being.
The twenty-time champion of Switzerland is now in second place in the Super League, five points behind leader FC Zurich. Basel was surprisingly eliminated in the eighth final of the cup tournament by third divisionist Étoile Carouge (1-0 loss) and won only one of the last six competition matches. In Group H of the Conference League, Basel performed well, taking fourteen points and finishing at the top.
Basel would consider firing Rahmen despite his ongoing contract and has already made contact with Schreuder, claims kicker. The club was recently taken over by former football player David Degen, who wants to place his own people in key positions within the club. He is a former international of Switzerland with a Swiss father and Dutch mother. Schreuder had been working as an assistant to Ronald Koeman at Barcelona from mid-2020, but his employment was terminated on November 1, a few days after Koeman’s resignation.
Schreuder was on paper assistant coach of FC Twente in the 2013/14 season, but in practice worked as head coach with Michel Jansen as right-hand man. A season later, he officially stood on his own two feet for the first time, finishing tenth with the club. Schreuder was sacked after three defeats and a draw in the first four games of the 2015/16 season. He then worked as an assistant at TSG Hoffenheim and Ajax, before succeeding Julian Nagelsmann as head coach of Hoffenheim in the 2019/20 season. Schreuder resigned in June 2020 due to a difference of opinion about the course to be followed and then became an assistant to Koeman.
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