Hugo Borst is not happy with the role played by Maurice Steijn in getting rid of Jeroen Rijsdijk at Sparta. An Algemeen Dagblad columnist accuses the former Ajax coach of a lack of loyalty to his former assistant.
Although the technical director Gerard Nijkamp swore that Sparta had only approached Steijn after Rijsdijk was dismissed, it seems that the fork came a little earlier. The two parties had previously had informal contact, Hague’s coach admitted recently. “The interesting thing is that Steijn has now said that Nijkamp was wrong,” Borst said on Saturday in ESPN’s De Eretribune program. his agent Rodger Linse. So Steijn, speaking formally, about what happened to the former assistant who followed him in his hands.”
“I like loyalty,” Borst continued. “If I wanted to work with someone, I wouldn’t want to be responsible for resigning. But Steijn didn’t do that, he said: ‘I’m available’. That means there was a good Sparta’s alternative.” According to the journalist, Rijsdijk was pushed aside for ‘irrelevant reasons’. “Enough points, did well last year. The players are behind him. There was no reason to throw him out. And Sparta already has such a bad reputation. Between 2012 and 2016 the club was training ground.”
Hugo Borst does not understand the change of coach at Sparta.
“I wouldn’t want to be responsible for firing a former colleague”
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2024-11-09 20:04:00
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