{"id":143730,"date":"2025-05-30T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143730\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:23:14","slug":"carlos-corberan-completes-west-brom-reunion-at-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143730\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Corberan completes West Brom reunion at Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former West Bromwich Albion boss Carlos Corberan was brought to The Hawthorns in the first place by Ron Gourlay\"WestWest Bromwich Albion Chief Executive Officer Ron Gourlay in the stands(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Carlos Corberan has completed a West Bromwich Albion reunion at Spanish outfit Valencia, after the club announced on Thursday evening that Ron Gourlay would be joining to take up the role as the chief executive.<\/p>\n

Gourlay was at the helm at Albion when the club appointed Corberan in October 2022, following the sacking of Steve Bruce and a disastrous beginning to their Championship campaign.<\/p>\n

Corberan led the club to the cusp of the play-offs and then into the top six the season following.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard left the club in the promotion race again this past season, when he returned to his home country and city to take up the Valencia job on Christmas<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

Valencia at the time were very much in a relegation battle but under Corberan they improved significantly in the second half of the season and progressed comfortably into mid-table.<\/p>\n

Now, Corberan will once again work with Gourlay, who himself departed The Hawthorns<\/a> exactly two years ago having fronted at board level in the absence of then controlling shareholder Guochuan Lai and has since worked in the Saudi Pro League at Al-Ahli, who he left in April.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to join Valencia CF at such a pivotal time. This club has passion, heritage, and a global fanbase that deserves success.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m thrilled to reunite with Carlos again. With [president] Kiat\u2019s leadership at the helm, we have a shared ambition to restore Valencia to where it belongs \u2013 competing for top honours, with a squad that reflects the club\u2019s identity and future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiat Lim added: \u201cWe are building Valencia CF for the future, with a foundation that is sustainable, ambitious, and worthy of our proud history.<\/p>\n

“In Ron Gourlay, we have a senior and very experienced Sporting CEO who understands the complexities of modern football and the demands of a top-tier club to lead the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gourlay was previously at Reading before being appointed CEO of Albion in place of Xu Ke in February 2022 following a consultancy period. He has also worked before at both Manchester United and Chelsea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former West Bromwich Albion boss Carlos Corberan was brought to The Hawthorns in the first place by Ron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,54889,393,4884,62043,16,15,12462],"class_list":{"0":"post-143730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-carlos-corberan","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-ron-gourlay","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-bromwich-albion-fc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114596059917423717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}