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Hiddink too expensive for Russia?
Published: 25 January, 2010, 18:07
Edited: 25 January, 2010, 21:41
RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev
TAGS: Sport, Hiddink, Football
Guus Hiddink is to arrive in Moscow in the next few days to meet with potential future president of Russia’s Football Union Sergey Fursenko and to announce his resignation from the national team.
“Fursenko wants a national manager who is cheaper. Guus knew nothing about this. So we are flying out there to hear the same words from the president himself,” Cees van Nieuwenhuizen, Hiddink’s agent, told Daily Mail newspaper.
The Dutchman’s agent also informed that Manchester City and Liverpool are interested in his client’s services, but the most likely option is another English giant – Chelsea, where the 63-year-old will take the position of technical director.
The Russian Football Union has made no comments on this information so far.
Guus Hiddink has been the most successful coach of the Russian national team since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The 62-year-old led Russia to the semis of Euro 2008, which they reached by beating Hiddink’s native Holland in an epic quarterfinal, but failed to take them to World Cup 2010.
He signed a two-and-a-half-year contract worth $2.4 million a year with Russia in 2006. There is a clause in the deal that states it can be prolonged for another two years.
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Rusian football autorities should say Thank You to Mr hiddink and let him go. The whole set-up was wrong; but it was not the coach's fault (See one of my comments before the Slovenia's lost). Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin