"It was a bit naive, nothing more …"

Michel Preud'homme has not evaded the question of the presence, on Wednesday in Neerpede, of Paul-Jose Mpoku alongside his younger brother Albert Sambi Lokonga, called to sit at the table anderlechtoise to negotiate an extension of his contract. With all the questions that it generates in a context that is not conducive to amalgam and ambiguities.

"What had to be said, from the management, of which I am a part but also from the coach, has been, internally," says Preud'homme calmly. "When you have comments to make to some players, it is useless to put them in the public square. You know that you build a club with certain ideas and what needs to be said is said, simply. I would say that this is, in my view, a bit naive, simply. Nothing else… ".