Verschueren: "We know each other. I think it's not done"

THURSDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2019, 12:24 - lajoya
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INTERVIEWS Sports director Michael Verschueren is not really set up with the way Club Brugge managed to get Diagne away for Anderlecht. However, he also adds that this should not be seen as a war declaration.


Verschueren explained to Het Laatste Nieuws how things were going. He went to Monaco to negotiate with Galatasaray about Diagne and that quickly led to an agreement with the club, but also with the player. The appointments were put on paper on Thursday and the only thing missing, according to Verschueren, was the signatures on the player's and his club's documents.

Diagne would come to Brussels on Sunday, together with his entourage. Both the players and his agents were met in Zaventem and in Brussels South, but Verschueren received a telephone call later that Diagne could not be found. After a while, the manager himself received a telephone call.

Galatasaray called Verschueren to say they had accepted Club Brugge's proposal, just like Diagne. The Senegalese was apparently unrecognizable led past the team manager with a hood on the head. Verschueren believes that Bruges has not broken any law, but that they could have informed him. After all, the directors often meet each other, as in the Pro League, and the way Bruges works is 'not done', according to the sports director.

Verschueren also wants to make it clear that this cannot be regarded as a declaration of war, because he is to blame for the absence of a striker at the last minute. Another file, the one of Papiss Cissé (34), was also unsuccessful. His Turkish club, Alanyaspor, did not want to let him go under the Purple & White conditions.

At Bruges, they responded briefly to the incident. According to Bruges, there was neither an agreement between Anderlecht and Diagne, nor with Galatasaray. As a listed company, they would have to announce such conversations and that also happened when there was an agreement with Bruges. They now want to leave the transfer period behind them.



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