"I understand decision, but hoped for a nice farewell"

INTERVIEWS For the first time, Olivier Deschacht reacted on his forced departure at Anderlecht. "Two days before the last league game Vanhaezebrouck looked me in the eye and said he wanted to keep me in. So I think the decision was made by someone else."


According to Deschacht, the decision not to give him a new contract is taken in the boardroom. "They wanted to renew and rejuvenate. They were right, but I would have liked them to have told me a little earlier, and I would have experienced that last game differently."

"I had been dreaming of a good farewell for three years and I missed that. And boys like Simons and Totti, who also played for one club for a long time, got that. The way I left does not make me happy. "