‘Always that bullshit after the games, I find that so easy’

Friday, July 23, 2021 at 13:39• Mart Oude Nijeweeme • Last update: 13:45

Bas Dost has been furious in response to the images that have appeared of him from the dressing room of Club Brugge. The Belgian club shared in the series We Never Walk Alone a unique insight into the dressing room, which showed that Ruud Vormer and Dost, among others, went completely crazy. In an interview with The Newspaper of West Flanders Dost looks back on those images and the criticism he had to swallow as a result.

In the images, which appeared on the internet at the beginning of June, Dos expressed his dissatisfaction with the presence of a camera in the dressing room of Bruges. “Fuck that camera,” he yelled. “Shut up. We don’t need that. Nobody is negative now, we’re going to do it. Everyone was bad today, really bad. It was worthless. This is not enough, not even on my part. I played bad too. We’re not going to give this away, not now. Everyone should be mad right now. And don’t look at your phone. Think for five minutes. But if you play like now, it won’t work. If I do something wrong, tell me to me.”

The images were recorded during the play-offs after the match against KRC Genk.
“I wanted to indicate from a certain emotion that it couldn’t go on like this”, Dost looks back at the images. “Honestly, I’m not such a fan of a camera in the dressing room. I’m not someone who falls out so quickly, but I felt the need, also for myself, to sharpen things up. I said, hey guys, this was nothing personal, I just didn’t know that there was still a small camera in the dressing room. I was not happy about that afterwards.”

The images quickly went over the internet, especially in Belgium and the Netherlands, after which Dost received the necessary criticism. That’s how he would have only done it for the cameras. “I haven’t read those stories and I haven’t heard anything about them,” Dost continues. “I can’t do anything with that either. That he (Nico Dijkshoorn after a column in Football International) writes that I did it for the cameras, says enough. I’m just someone who never works with the cameras. So much is being said by people who don’t know what it is about. By people who don’t know me and just shout.”

It’s a thorn in Dost’s side, people who analyze things after a match. “Always that bullshit after those games, I find that so easy,” says the former striker of FC Emmen, sc Heerenveen and Heracles Almelo, among others. “It used to really annoy me, but now I don’t even look at it anymore. I don’t read newspapers either. I now know how it works: if I don’t score the first three games, I won’t be able to do anything about it again .” Nevertheless, Dost calmly dares to make a prediction for next season. “If I stay fit like this, you can demand more than 20 goals from me.”