players and KNVB must take much of the blame for the
nation's Euro2016 qualifying failure.
Bolo Zenden sees Southampton boss Ronald Koeman as a
future Netherlands head coach, but believes it would send out
the wrong message to sack Danny Blind following the "big
disaster" of failing to qualify for Euro 2016.
The Dutch have become accustomed to being among the
favourites for major tournaments and finished third at the World
Cup in Brazil last year under Louis van Gaal.
But they sensationally missed out on a place in the European
Championship next year after failing to even secure a play-off
place in a Group A campaign which saw Blind promoted to the
top job when Guus Hiddink stepped down in July.
Blind endured a baptism of fire, losing three of the four
qualifiers he took charge of to prompt speculation over his
future early in his reign.
Former Netherlands international Zenden expects Blind, who
signed a three-year deal, to stay on and thinks the players and
the KNVB should shoulder much of the blame for such a poor
qualifying campaign.
Zenden told Omnisport: "Maybe in the end you can say it's not
the fault of the manager, but the players have to take
responsibility and the Dutch FA.
"I guess he'll stay on because he took over in a bad moment and
what signal do you give if you change the manager again?
"The other thing is, if the manager has been changed then the
person who put him in charge will have to move on as well
because of the mistakes he's made along the way.
"He's not going to move, so the manager doesn't move. There
has to be change not just within the camp, there is talks in
Holland to employ a technical director, more like a director of
football, above the coach and above the people in charge from
the highest level at the Dutch FA.
"Will it make such a big difference if you change him after four
games. He has been there with Hiddink and it was his time to
shine after Euro 2016, but he took over halfway through as it
wasn't going the way it should be.
"If you change him now you have to think 'who should be in the
role at the moment?'. I don't think there's anybody now that will
take on the job or someone who would do it any better.
"The name of Ronald Koeman has been mentioned, but he's not
going to move now. I don't think this is the time to try and get
Ronald Koeman in. He will probably [be one for the job] in the
future."
Ex-Barcelona, Chelsea and Liverpool midfielder Zenden felt
Netherlands came up short as they were simply not good
enough.
"It's a big disaster and from my point of view it comes down to
quality that they were lacking," the 39-year-old added.
"Van Gaal played the World Cup with more or less the same
players. Coming back from the World Cup they probably thought
they were better than they were.
"They went back to the usual 4-3-3 and there was just not
enough quality in the team."
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