Arnold Bruggink will be trained at FC Twente by technical director Jan Streuer, sports marketer Chris Woerts reported on Thursday evening. Guest in the program Veronica Inside says Woerts that Streuer will stay with the Tukkers for at least another year to familiarize Bruggink. Reportedly, Twente will announce the news that the ESPN analyst is the new intended ‘td’ next week. Johan Derksen thinks that Bruggink is more suitable as a technical director than as an analyst.
“Next week it will be announced that the technical director of FC Twente, Jan Streuer, will stay for another year and will take the time to familiarize Arnold Bruggink. Arnold Bruggink is going to be the ‘td’ at Twente after all”, begins Woerts, who puts forward Sander Schimmelpenninck, former editor-in-chief of the Quote, as general director. “It would also be very good if Sander Schimmelpenninck lives up to his statements, because he really wants to become chairman of Twente. That is too ambitious, but he can first become general manager. That vacancy will also become available.”
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“Look, Sander is of course eloquent, he has a network and he is a Tukker”, Woerts continues. “Still, I doubt whether he will work at Twente for 350,000 euros a year. It is his ambition to do something at Twente, so he would form a wonderful duo with Arnold Bruggink. He has said that he wants to become chairman, but he does not know what that entails. You cannot just become chairman, and moreover you have to be at Twente day and night.”
“He was editor-in-chief of Quote, so he knows all the wealthy people in the Netherlands. So he can call those people for money and that is necessary, because Twente still has a large debt. So that could come in handy,” said Woerts, who is interrupted by presenter Wilfred Genee. “He’s not going to do that. I spoke to him last week and I think he has very different ambitions. He wants to go to Sweden much more often to be there with his girlfriend.”
Derksen, who wants to return to the news about Bruggink, sees him as a suitable technical director. “Bruggink is a neat, representative boy with a football past and he comes from the region. Nothing wrong with it. And that he is no longer on TV: tidy is neat, because he has nothing to report.” René van der Gijp joins his colleague. “He has nothing to say, no, not at all. He falls very much into general terms like ‘between the lines’, ‘closely together’; that kind of idiocy. He doesn’t approach anyone directly that easily. He thinks like: maybe I will have to deal with him again. If you start throwing around general terms, you’re safe,” concludes Van der Gijp.