Valencia have named Carlos Corberan as head coach on a two-and-a-half 12 months deal following the Spaniard’s departure from West Bromwich Albion, the struggling LaLiga membership mentioned.
Corberan spent three years at Leeds United as their under-23 coach and as a member of Marcelo Bielsa’s backroom workers, earlier than turning into Huddersfield City supervisor in 2020.
The 41-year-old, who has since coached Olympiacos and West Brom, additionally beforehand performed for Valencia’s youth crew.
“Carlos Corberan turns into the brand new Valencia CF coach till 2027,” Valencia mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.
“The membership has knowledgeable West Bromwich Albion FC of the execution of the exit possibility stipulated in his contract to go away the English membership.”
Corberan posted a press release thanking the English membership and their followers.
“I can’t start to elucidate how I really feel about West Bromwich Albion, its followers and everybody related to the membership,” it learn.
“In my greater than two years right here I’ve solely felt love from this neighborhood and the choice to go away has been the toughest of my life. There’ll all the time be a spot in my coronary heart for this particular membership and I hope sooner or later I can return to thanks all on your unimaginable assist.”
Corberan replaces Ruben Baraja, who was sacked on Monday with Valencia second from backside within the standings on 12 factors with solely two wins in 17 league video games and 4 factors from the security zone.
The membership’s Singaporean proprietor Peter Lim continues to face important protests from followers.
Lim acquired then debt-ridden Valencia in 2014 however has not been a preferred determine, with the membership having usually been pressured to promote their prime gamers to scale back the membership’s excessive money owed whereas not making important signings to strengthen the squad.
Valencia, who’ve a match in hand, subsequent play second-placed Actual Madrid at house on Jan. 3, a rescheduled sport after the unique fixture was postponed on account of flooding final month.
