Valentijn Driessen thinks that Arne Slot portrayed John de Wolf ‘as a toddler’. ‘s journalist The Telegraph does not understand why the trainer of Feyenoord on Thursday against Partizan (2-1 win) was constantly on the phone with De Wolf. Slot was absent from De Kuip himself due to a corona infection. “Why does Arne Slot do that?” Driessen wonders in the podcast kick off from The Telegraph†
According to Driessen, it was completely unnecessary for Slot to provide his assistant coach with instructions from home. “After that 2-5 victory, they can also do it without Arne Slot’s phone? Then you can call in the break, right? Then there is the great Feyenoord icon, John de Wolf, with his phone on his ear… ‘Yes, Arne, no Arne, should we do it like this?’ Then Arne must also know: you don’t treat people that way. You are portrayed as a toddler.”
Driessen believes that Slot should have handled the situation more wisely. “You can do it, but don’t do it this way. Or only at halftime, dude… Those guys from Belgrade really couldn’t help it and you’re 5-2 ahead. If you accelerate twice them in, unbelievable.” Despite the many absentees, Feyenoord indeed won fairly easily with 2-1.
Driessen noticed that the role of De Wolf during the duel with Partizan was not great anyway. “After the game, I asked John de Wolf whether this was actually the success of John de Wolf, or of Sipke Hulshoff,” Driessen refers to Slot’s other assistant. “Because the only one standing along the line was Sipke Hulshoff. Then, of course, he will twist himself in all kinds of turns…”