By Daily Sports on October 24, 2017

Everton’s 5-2 home defeat to Arsenal on Sunday sealed coach Ronald Koeman’s fate as the handler of the Premiership side, as he was subsequently sacked on Monday.

The sack makes Koeman the third Premier League managerial casualty of the season.

The 54-year-old Dutchman – who guided Everton to seventh in his first season in charge last term – paid the price for a desperate start to the campaign despite having spent £140million ($185mn) in the close season.

Everton now drop into the bottom three.

"Everton Football Club can confirm that Ronald Koeman has left the Club," read the Everton statement.

"Chairman Bill Kenwright, the Board of Directors and Major Shareholder Farhad Moshiri would all like to express their gratitude to Ronald for the service he has given to the Club over the past 16 months and for guiding the Club to seventh place in last season's Premier League."

Koeman, who arrived at Goodison Park after a successful spell in charge of Southampton, splashed the money on the likes of Icelandic international Gylfi Sigurdsson in the summer.

Sigurdsson is yet to display the sort of form that got Koeman to convince the board to pay out a club record £45million to prise him away form Swansea.

Others such as Dutchman Davy Klaassen – who cost £23.6million from Ajax – have also disappointed with Koeman taking him off at halftime of their Europa League defeat by Lyon last Thursday.

Koeman joins compatriot Frank de Boer – sacked by Crystal Palace after just four Premier League games – and Craig Shakespeare dismissed by Leicester last week as top level managers to have departed this season. © AFP

•Photo shows Ronald Koeman.

Source Daily Sports

Posted October 24, 2017

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