Tome knew her time in cost was prone to finish going into Euro 2025, together with her contract attributable to expire this summer season and no obvious need to supply an extension.

Ladies’s soccer director Reyes Bellver joined the RFEF in February and sources in Spain say she made it clear she wished to make deep and real modifications to the construction.

After high-profile controversy and incidents involving former federation chief Luis Rubiales and World Cup-winning supervisor Jorge Vilda, Bellver wished to create a recent tradition.

Nevertheless, specialists in Spain say the crew’s efficiency at Euro 2025 – reaching the ultimate earlier than shedding to England in a penalty shootout – delayed the choice to let Tome go, with some members of the board questioning the sporting justification for change.

A unanimous resolution by the board was required however they ultimately agreed, with sources near the Spanish gamers admitting Tome didn’t maintain whole authority within the dressing room.

Journalists and supporters in Spain are broadly in favour of the choice to let Tome go, given she was assistant supervisor to Vilda and a part of the beforehand poor tradition.

Nevertheless, there may be frustration over the RFEF’s resolution to nominate Sonia Bermudez as Tome’s substitute with some in Spain questioning her lack of expertise and the very fact she was additionally a part of the construction – albeit within the youth groups – when Vilda and Rubiales had been concerned.

Bermudez was a key participant for Spain in her profession and has had success at youth crew degree as a coach, in order that does convey optimism, whereas her assistant Iraia Iturregi is skilled and has a formidable CV.

The expectation is that they are going to tackle this extremely gifted group of gamers and check out to make sure they preserve their standing because the world’s finest on the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup.