Les humeurs des supporters (1)

OPINIONS Il y a trois semaines, juste avant mon départ en vacances, j'ai reçu plusieurs messages de supporters.
On était à ce moment en pleine tourmente entre la défaite face au Celtic et la réception du Standard.
A mon retour, Hein Vanhaezebrouck était déjà le nouveau coach du Sporting, c'est pourquoi je n'ai pas publié les avis reçus une dizaine de jours plus tôt; cela aurait senti le réchauffé et risquait d'alimenter une polémique devenue stérile.
Ce vendredi soir, je me suis souvenu, Dieu sait pourquoi, du mail reçu d'Ally à ce moment. Sa particularité, il était rédigé en anglais!
Je l'ai donc relu et j'ai décidé de le partager avec vous, car il est vraiment intéressant.
Do'nt stress!!! Il n'y a pas de bug et votre PC n'a pas été piraté subitement. Oui, le texte est en anglais et j'ai réussi à le comprendre même si je maitrise netement moins bien la langue de Shakespeare que celles de Cervantes ou de Vondel. Et puis, il vous reste toujours la possibilité d'utiliser un correcteur d'orthographe. Le résultat est généralement imparfait et parfois cocasse, mais cela permet de comprendre le sens général du texte.

As someone who watches and follows RSCA outside the beautiful country of Belgium, I would like to share my thoughts, if I may.
The last few years it has become evident that many things are not good within our team, and not just with the players who are becoming more and more unsettled and distracted.

Constant Vanden Stock had very large and very perfect shoes to fill and as time has passed it has become obvious that Roger simply has trouble finding those shoes, let alone filling them.
Up until the Kortrijk game the other week his calmness in adversity has been amazing, he never so much as ruffled at any of the critical media or fans who questioned his ability to follow in his father's footsteps. Kortrijk changed all of that....we saw a man who was visibly tortured by what he was hearing and seeing, a man so at odds with himself that he could no longer hide his fury

Many have been critical of Weiler, I am of two minds about him....on one hand he did make strange choices and decisions, he hated the media spotlight (most people hate it if asked) but on the other hand he gave the team much needed boosts in the silverware department and hope for the future.

Weiler was savaged in the game against Bayern Munich for placing a defensive midfielder in the CB role....that is not so uncommon, many teams do this...looks at Manchester City when Guardiola placed Yaya Toure in CB for the first time in his life...and he worked his boots off and played to the best of his ability.
Kums joined the team with a bad record of benchwarming when at Watford and Udinese, he has an inability to adapt, he is a one trick pony and anyone who dare to change his position gets it from both barrels...or in the Bayern game, a sulky perfromance followed by a red card.

Last night Frutos tried the exact same gameplay...using Dendoncker in the CB role....no-one even noticed, let alone were critical...and again the gameplay failed.
The emotional upheaval of osing Weiler has left its mark on the players and I do not believe that it is being taken seriously enough.
Spajic was badly hurt yet was not removed for almost 15 minutes....a manager should protect his or her players, Frutos stood arguing with his own medical staff in the tech box over Spajic........not even Weiler or Hasi would have done that.
So now I come to the crux of it.
The usually placid Roger Vanden Stock exploding in the stands at the Kortrijk game.
The lack of the long gone champagne football.

RSCA has been in one family for a very long time, I beleive that Roger will be the last family member to have such a huge say in the running of the club.
Why?
The club is desperate for proper investment....the stadium is too small, its antiquated and crumbling, held together with love and a lick of paint.  For us to perform on anything close to equal terms with our peers we need top flight players and managers....they cos more than the 98 million euro that is the current value of the club.
The sad fact is that we need outside investment, lots of it, if we are to continue running with the bigger teams and be in with a chance of winning the big trophies again

Thirty years ago we won everything in sight....thirty years later and our whole club is worth less than one player in MUFC.
If we had Asian or Middle Eastern investment we would not lose the family feel and the Vanden Stock family would still be watching and have as much involvement as they have now.
But at least we would stand a fighting chance on the pitch of dreams that has recently become the pitch of nightmares.
Until Roger blew his top the other week I still thought RSCA had a future in his hands but that game changed that, he is tired, he is sad and upset that his beloved club is suffering and that the fans are so angry and that his players have lost their emotional inner strength and fighting spirit.

I suspect that RSCA as a club including all assets will be sold, if not fully, it will sell 75% to an outsider with lots of money and a love of the beautiful game.
Only then, I believe, will we see Roger smile, our fans have something to cheer and party for and our players to have pride in playing in the mauve and white once more.
Selling the club to an outside investor or syndicate or family is not something to be afraid of, instead it might just give the beautiful and traditional club that we all love and follow some fresh air to breathe, grow and be great again.