ADO Den Haag has said goodbye to Aleksandar Rankovic. The trainer was fired after the relegation candidate lost 2-4 against FC Twente on Saturday evening. According to Hans Kraay junior and Hélène Hendriks, a dismissal had been coming for some time, as Rankovic was not supported by the club management. Kraay junior calls Rankovic’s strike ’embarrassingly fast’.

Kraay junior was present at the match between ADO and PSV in Eindhoven last week and was able to tell that Rankovic’s chair legs were being sawn. He could not say much about how he got the information. Sunday at Good morning Eredivisie he lifts a corner of the veil on a remarkable conversation. “I was standing at a corner flag before the game comes when someone came up to me. He said, ‘Would you somehow want to publicize the fact that his chair legs are being sawn a lot? At PSV six or seven can get over his head. The players are seventy to eighty percent behind him. They think he is a nice and honest man. ” Then my feeling of injustice plays up “, says Kraay junior.

The message from the anonymous source was brought out by Kraay junior in the live broadcast of FOX Sports. “I asked that man why he said that to me. He said, ‘My interest is the interest of ADO. This is just the right man for the club. ‘ I hate it. This is the fate of a football coach; lose three times and you can’t go crazy anymore. ” PEC Zwolle defender Bram van Polen is also present in the studio on Sunday and calls it ‘a very strange story’. “It sounds very silly, but it seems preconceived,” said Van Polen about Rankovic’s dismissal.

“The same person also came to me and said the same to me,” says Hendriks, who tells us that Rankovic has been in the kick chair for some time. “I have been at ADO – AZ (2-2, ed.) And it was actually the intention to fire him then. They postponed that until a week later. But in the end, not all players were behind him, “says the presenter, who is supplemented by Kraay junior:” You never have, but the determining players were behind him. ” Hendriks: “I’ve heard something else, so the truth will be in the middle somewhere. But it is true that you cannot say that Rankovic did everything right. ”

“We all agree that if you choose an inexperienced trainer, because he is at the highest level, and you know that you have to fight against relegation, that you have to support him”, Hendriks says. “But now we pretend Rankovic is the bitten dog. In a way, it may be. But there are a number of things that play a role. If you can no longer manage your own technical staff, then you have a problem. If you don’t communicate with management, then you have a problem. And if you always choose a different way of playing, and that could also be due to corona and injuries, but then you are searching and you make beginner mistakes. ”