FC Twente announced one day after the conviction of Joshua Brenet that the player will no longer play for FC Twente. Brenet had been a problem child for FC Twente for some time, while he had a very important role as a connector within the playing group. The news hit hard within the player group. On Thursday, general manager Dominique Scholten and technical director Arnold Bruggink provided the players with explanations.
“He is a connector in the group and provides a laugh. But off the field he does not oversee everything and gets himself into trouble,” is the conclusion of Leon ten Voorde at the AD Voetbalpodcast. “FC Twente and Bruggink have put an incredible amount of energy into helping him over the past year. Then there is a ‘yes’, but two weeks later something is wrong with him again off the field. FC Twente wanted actually sold him silently last summer. Only he didn’t get away. Despite all the help and conversations, which Brenet didn’t always think was necessary, things went wrong again.” The conviction was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back. “This is a conviction and then we can no longer afford to keep him employed at FC Twente any longer.”
“They have constantly tried to help him, because they think he is a good boy at heart. Only he does stupid things too often. And now it really ends. It is also very social that they pay his salary until the end continue to pay for the season, despite the fact that they are in the process of terminating the contract. They want to help him and not let him fall.” This raises questions for presenter Etienne Verhoef. “Why? He has negatively surprised the club several times. He is not a twelve-year-old child, is he?”
“Sometimes they are,” Ten Voorde continues. “You constantly hear from Brenet: he laughs everything away. He doesn’t open the mail, so to speak, when something comes in. It is largely naivety. Then as a club you can do two things. They can get rid of it. pulling, they have done that to a certain extent now, but they don’t want to drop him.”
Statement: It is a good gesture from FC Twente to continue paying Brenet’s salary until the end of his contract.
