Johan Derksen does not have a good word for the interview that Danny Buijs gave on Sunday afternoon after the game against Sparta Rotterdam (1-1). The FC Groningen trainer was deeply disappointed in his team and left it in front of the cameras of RTV North become clear. “I really thought that putting all the blame on the players, then you are not such a good boy,” Derksen responds in Veronica Inside.
Groningen got no further than a draw at Het Kasteel. “You don’t always play well, and if things go less well with a number of boys, that’s possible,” Buijs said afterwards. “And then you make some mistakes, that’s also possible. What really bothered me, and that’s actually the first time in three and a half years that I’ve been at Groningen, is that I just don’t have a team on the field in the second half that sacrifices itself at all costs. That really broke me. What annoyed me. What I saw about that? About people who don’t switch, to attitudes, to gestures, to rebuttals. It was quiet in the dressing room, but I think it was good that they listened to what I had to say. They have a lot to think about tonight.”
Derksen will come back to that on Monday evening. “The trainer that I have been terribly annoyed by is that trainer from Groningen, who gives a speech in front of the TV that he puts his heart and soul into it, and that he doesn’t get anything in return,” said the analyst. “‘And I also demand that of my players’. I think: yes, if you always behave so weird, maybe those players don’t take you seriously anymore’. You should never complain about that, that players don’t pick up on it. Because over time, a trainer burns himself with such a group, because then they can dream that tune.”
According to Derksen, Buijs’s lyrics are mainly ‘bla, bla, bla’. “What does he want to do? Throw them out? He has a squad of fourteen, he can’t kick anyone out at all. It’s all those trainer stories. A coach who is disappointed, and it’s easy to put it down to the players to lay.” In any case, Derksen thinks that Buijs should behave differently down the line. “If you make a compilation of his escapades before the dugout, you can’t stop laughing. Those players see that too, of course. This is usually the beginning of the end. It’s out of disappointment, I understand. he had counted on three points at Sparta, and that is not possible. Sparta had even earned it.”