Alfred Schreuder has put FC Basel’s offer aside for the time being, writes kicker. The currently unemployed trainer was in the picture with the Swiss to replace current coach Patrick Rahmen, who is under heavy fire at his club. Schreuder reportedly had two talks with Basel, after which he decided to pull the plug on the negotiations for unknown reasons.
Basel, the twenty-time champion of Switzerland, is now in second place in the Super League, five points behind leader FC Zurich. The club 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. The club was recently taken over by former footballer 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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