Rutten: "This is perhaps my most difficult job as a coach"

INTERVIEWS Fred Rutten has been a coach of Anderlecht for two months now. His hand is visible and the points are coming, but it is not really running smoothly yet. "I have a challenge with Anderlecht," he tells Sport / Voetbalmagazine. "This is perhaps my most difficult job as a coach until now."


Before Anderlecht, Rutten worked briefly in Israel and in Dubai. But Anderlecht, that's the real thing. "Now that I'm at Anderlecht, I know what I missed in Dubai, I want to help players develop, maximize their demands, build and perform a team, I'm now in a phase where I only do things that I like. I do not do it anymore for money or glory, but for the challenge, and here I have one. "

Anyone who expects that Rutten would take care of a complete turnaround from the start, was disappointed. Can not, says Rutten. "Anyone who thinks that a trainer who comes halfway through the season can take everything right, knows nothing about it. It depends on the physical state of a group of players, and you have no influence on that," Rutten says.

Rutten clearly states that the battery of the players was in optimal condition. Only his way of playing requires a different adjustment. "I am a coach who stands for position play, and if my predecessor paid less attention to that, then the players under me are faced with a different load on the muscles, but with the condition of the players nothing was wrong."