Ronald Koeman does not intend to (partly) waive his severance payment, according to journalist Lluis Canut of Catalunya Ràdio. According to reports in Spain, the dismissal of the trainer will cost Barcelona around twelve million euros. Canut claims that Koeman wants to receive the amount ‘down to the last cent’ from the financially distressed club.
Koeman still had a contract with Barcelona until the end of the season. After his dismissal, it was reported in Spain that his ‘broken premium’ of twelve million euros consists of his remaining salary (seven million euros) and the amount that Koeman himself would have coughed up to be able to exchange his job as national coach of the Dutch for the trainership in the national team. Camp Nou (five million). According to Canut, that reporting is not entirely based on truth.
“The total amount is twelve million euros, but I want to make it clear that the amount has nothing to do with the sum that was paid to the Dutch football association,” the journalist says. “That was five million euros and was immediately paid by Barcelona. I don’t know whether the amount of twelve million euros should only be paid to Koeman, or whether parts of it are for his assistants (Alfred Schreuder and Henrik Larsson, ed.).”
Due to the pandemic, Koeman agreed to a deferred payment of 45 percent of his salary last season, Canut reports. Partly for that reason, he still has a lot of money. In the talks about his dismissal, general manager Ferran Reverter tried to get the trainer to agree to a severance payment of seven to eight million euros, but Koeman did not listen to that.
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