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NEC coach Mario Been possible successor to sacked Verbeek
It was a conclusion that Verbeek subscribed to when he saw the attitude of some of his players on the training pitch on Wednesday. He noticed "a sudden change, with some of his team ostensibly not looking him in the face." The troubled coach went straight up to Feyenoord management to inform them that "the situation had become unworkable."
Chemistry
"To my regret, our roads have separated," Feyenoord general director Eric Gudde told reporters on Wednesday evening. He explained that Verbeek had "no chemistry" with some his players.
Verbeek's supporters have blamed the club's poor form on the absence of several players due to injury. Jon Dahl Tomasson, Kevin Hofland, Ron Vlaar, Tim Vincken, Danny Buijs, Denny Landzaat and Jonathan de Guzman have all been out of action with injuries while Tim de Cler only returned to training on Wednesday. 
put the blame squarely on the players, and on technical director Peter Bosz who also left the club in "solidarity with Verbeek". After all, it was Bosz who joined the club in the summer of 2006 with the promise to introduce a "professional climate" that would bring the former European Cup winner back to the top. But after spending some 30 million euros on new and mostly older players, Feyenoord went quickly downhill, both in terms of results and finance.
Feyenoord travel to Verbeek's former club Heerenveen on Friday for a league match and host them on Tuesday in the fourth round of the Dutch Cup.
The solution may not be so costly, claims the sports supplement of the Rotterdam-based AD daily on Thursday. It says Feyenoord might and should be trying to persuade the club's former star and current NEC Nijmegen coach, Mario Been, to replace Verbeek. Reportedly, he'll cost the club no more than 750,000 euros in compensation to NEC
In the most ideal scenario, he'd be supported by another football and media wizard, veteran Poland coach Leo Beenhakker. Their experience, expertise and stature is undisputed. And with these two mighty men at the helm, the players will no longer have any excuse.
Theo Tamis
Raio Netherlands
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