Carlos Corberan is Huddersfield Town’s new head coach and leaves Leeds United nearly three years to the day since he arrived.
The 37-year-old has finally agreed to terms with the Terriers more than one month after their initial approach to take their top job.
Corberan was offered significantly more money at The John Smith’s Stadium and a chance to take, by far, the most senior and high profile role of his career.
However, the carrot of remaining at the side of Marcelo Bielsa as United head into the Premier League appealed too.
Director of football Victor Orta felt there had been a breakthrough with Huddersfield’s approaches on Monday morning and began negotiating a compensation package.
While there were no serious issues on fees between the clubs, Corberan has taken his time with the decision, but finally took the plunge.
The Spaniard arrived on July 21, 2017 and was one of Orta’s earliest appointments at Thorp Arch, coming in from Cypriot First Division side Ermis.
Last summer, Corberan weighed up leaving United to coach Cultural Leonesa, the club United had links with through Aspire Academy, but was convinced to stay by Andrea Radrizzani.
On Monday, Radrizzani said: "I understand the ambition of Carlos. Already last year he had some opportunities to leave to become a first-team coach.
“I asked him to stay one year because we had an unfinished job and he did stay.
“Now he needs to have the credit to enjoy this moment of success with everybody because he does this job, hard work every day.
“I know how much Carlos works and now it's also good he can take his own way, his own path and start a new journey to build himself as a first-team coach. He deserves it.”
