Anderlecht‘s Struggles Blamed on non-Football Leadership
brussels, Belgium – Former RSC Anderlecht coach Aad de Mos has launched a scathing critique of the club’s recent failures, directly attributing them to leadership lacking football expertise. The comments come as Anderlecht navigates another turbulent period,recently seeing chairman Wouter Vandenhaute depart and suffering elimination from European competition.
De Mos asserts the club is reeling from “years of bad governance,” and specifically criticized the influence of Vandenhaute, a journalist, and Marc coucke, a businessman, in the club’s direction.
“This is what happens when you let a football club run by a journalist and a businessman,” De Mos told Het Nieuwsblad. he acknowledged Coucke‘s business acumen, stating, “Marc coucke is a sympathetic figure and perhaps a genius on a business level.But the football shop is slightly diffrent than a magazine, a cycling match or a hotel in Durbuy. You need football people to set the lines.”
De Mos further contends that fundamental structural issues were present from the outset,with personnel improperly positioned within the organization. “At Anderlecht, the right people were in the wrong places and the wrong people in the right places. Than things are going wrong,” he said.
He pointed to the bloated squad size – “more than thirty players to play one game a week” – as evidence of mismanagement, questioning the rationale behind numerous player acquisitions.”And it is all players I think of: how the hell did he end up at Anderlecht?” De Mos added.
