Mehdi Bayat out of him after the stoppage of the match between Charleroi and Mechelen: “They pissed on the coat of arms”

Charleroi is in great danger of losing its match against Mechelen on the green carpet. All this while the Zebras showed a good face and led the score thanks to Benbouali’s goal in the 52nd. But the Charleroi supporters decided otherwise by repeatedly throwing smoke bombs on the lawn. The supporters also chanted “Mehdi, get away from us throughout the game.”

After the meeting, the managing director of Charleroi, Mehdi Bayat was furious with his supporters: “Tonight, they [les supporters] pissed on the coat of arms”, he confided to our journalist present on the spot.

A few minutes earlier, Bayat had spoken extensively about the evening of the Zebras: “I warned you before the start of the meeting of this premeditated action on the part of our supporters. They only came for that”began Bayat, “We played well, we had the game in hand and there are no words to describe what our supporters did. The supporters sing: ‘this is us Charleroi’, but this is not Charleroi I know. It’s not Charleroi that welcomed me 20 years ago. It’s not the Charleroi mentality that still has the aggressiveness and the desire to fight.”

“I don’t know what to say anymore. The leaders of Mechelen did not understand what our supporters wanted from us. They were very surprised by what they saw before and during the match. The Mechelen leaders told me that they have a hole 6 million euros and that they would have liked to sell players”chained Bayat who does not understand the reproaches made by the supporters, “Yes, we have to sell our best players every year. And I get blamed for not being bankrupt because I manage the club, and we get angry because we’re not 3rd or 4th? Obviously It touches me deep inside.”

Bayat was all the more angry with the supporters as the Carolos delivered one of their best meetings of the season: “The scenario was idyllic. We announced our new coach (Editor’s note, Felice Mazzù) before the game, we were leading in the score, the players gave everything on the pitch. I’m thinking of Frank Defays and his staff who wanted to end on a good note … I have nothing to say to the supporters. Supporting your team means supporting it to the end and not doing what we saw tonight.”

“You have to realize that there is a drift in Belgium with the regulations. All the supporters have the power to stop the matches. Where are we going?”pestait bayat, “We have to review the regulations because we give power to the supporters. I will ask for meetings with the city, the mayor and the police because we can’t do anything but we have to act. We no longer want to see what ‘we see tonight.”

Before concluding with a final message to his supporters: “Let those who are not happy not come. But they can’t take a whole stadium hostage!”