Ronald Koeman says FA were right to give Sam Allardyce the boot after corruption scandal

EVERTON boss Ronald Koeman has stuck his head above the parapet and backed the FA over the sacking of Sam Allardyce.

While most leading figures in the game have either fudged the issue or chosen to sit on the fence, the Dutchman says the whole incident has left a stain on football.

And while Koeman, who has managed across Europe, has some sympathy for Allardyce, he said: “If you like football it's a bad story - for football in general it's a black mark on the football and that's not good. That's my view.

“I am very disappointed. First of all for the man himself; he had a chance to be the national team manager of England then this happened.

"But OK – I think the FA took the right decision.”

Koeman insists that in his own experience, continental coaches never get involved in the financial side of the game.

And he hinted that maybe some English managers have too big an influence in negotiating deals, which could leave them open to problems

“I don't know if it's just British football...what I know is how I work in my manager role. It's not different now in the Premier than when I was a coach in Holland, Portugal and Spain,” he said.

“In my role, always my advice when I do a transfer is about the technical part of the player. I am not involved in the financial part of the transfer.”

Koeman has a football director at Everton in former Leicester assistant Steve Walsh and he has always worked under the system, including at Southampton in his last job.

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