Hugo Borst is absolutely unhappy with the way Erik ten Hag has been speaking about journalism in recent weeks. The columnist of the General Newspaper lashes out hard at the trainer of Ajax, who refused on Friday to speak out about his former player Quincy Promes. “Ten Hag frames journalists. That is bad, frivolous and dangerous,” said Borst in the newspaper on Monday.
Due to new revelations in the media about Promes, Ten Hag was asked on Friday after his team’s victory against SC Cambuur (2-3) about the alleged attempted murder, which the Spartak Moscow attacker confesses in tapped conversations. Ten Hag previously maintained that he believed in the innocence of the current Spartak Moscow attacker, but now sought a confrontation with the journalists and pretended his nose was bleeding. “You are aware that tapping has taken place? This is what the . says NOS, but I await the judge’s verdict,” Ten Hag responded in front of the said broadcaster’s camera. Incidentally, the telephone conversations were not NOSbut by news hour brought outside.
Borst thinks Ten Hag’s statements are unwise. The columnist wonders whether the Ajax trainer has an eye for ‘the hardening journalistic climate’ in the Netherlands. “Does he think about this unfortunate development?”, said Borst. “Last week Ten Hag said that the NOS had made a wrong translation of an interview that Dusan Tadic had given.” Tadic said in Serbian to the NOS that he ‘doesn’t care’ what Marc Overmars has done, but later backtracked. “But the translation was indeed correct. That has been checked, double checked. What Ten Hag had claimed was not correct.”
And on Friday, Ten Hag did something similar about the Promes case. “Ten Hag mentioned the NOS three times while bathing, as if they were bringing fake news. He disqualifies journalism because the truth bothers him, a naive believer of the sincere fellow man Promes.” Borst draws rock-solid conclusions. “Ten Hag frames journalists. That is bad, frivolous and dangerous. He is partly responsible for a breeding ground that journalists are not believed. With all the consequences that entails.”