Verschueren: "Now you can judge us for the transfers"

FRIDAY, 26 JULY 2019, 15:50 - lajoya
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INTERVIEWS Is Anderlecht ready for the new season? Sceptical supporters see few departures and newcomers, but at Sporza sports director Michel Verschueren says that the seleciton has been sufficiently renewed compared to last season. "The reinforcements we achieved now allow us to be ambitious."


"The reinforcement we got in December and January was a difficult story. We then had to get someone back who we rented out. We transferred two other players with moderate success: one half, one difficult", Verschueren refers to Kara, Bolasie and Zulj .

Four newcomers, but also two or three youngsters

Verschueren wants to fully assume his responsibility for the current transfer period. "Now we have a whole mercato and we can apply a whole strategy. We worked on it several months in advance with the scouting. Now we cannot say that we could not do our homework fully. Now we can be judged based on the upcoming sporting results. "

Four new players have been added so far, but Verschueren sees it differently. "We have many youngsters who will join this year. I am very surprised by two, three youngsters who already played regularly during the preparation and of which we are sure that everything will be fine. The whole is therefore very innovative compared to last season."

"Additional transfers depending on departure"

What can we expect from new players in the coming weeks? "The incoming transfers will depend on what the outgoing yields. There is a wish list with players that we still want to get to strengthen the team. I am not going to make any statements about that now. We are trying to get reinforcements in one or two positions "

A deep striker seems the most obvious. "We have strikers. Ivan Santini scored many goals last year and Thelin and Dauda returned after a loan. But we are indeed looking into whether it is possible to get reinforcements there."



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