"Protecting key players and youth"

TRANSFERS Players may also leave in the transfer period. Whoever that is, Michaël Verschueren did not want to put a name on it. What is certain, the key players and the youth are not allowed to leave. Even though that often depends on the player himself.


"We made the exercise yesterday who can stay and who will get very hard to play at the first team", Verschueren was honest; "I can not say who is allowed to leave, but what I can say is that the managers of those players have been informed, and it is now up to them to check with their players what the next steps are."

Youth and key players

Of course, there is always the danger in a transfer period that key players leave. "We know that and the message has been sent out that some key players  and youngsters are not for sale, we try to protect them, even though it depends a lot on the player himself. When a club comes and offer a monster wage, it is often difficult to keep him. "