Overmars was presented as a loner who would sidle over to female colleagues with a coffee cup in his hand. Initially, he’d ask them if he could help with anything. Sometimes, conversations would go on unnecessarily long. Overmars might be a smart deal-breaker in the transfer market but he has never been a smooth communicator. He preferred texting. “After a small opening — an apparently harmless answer — he became unrelenting,” NRC wrote. “The way he made contact became more and more obtrusive. He didn’t hesitate to send pictures of his genitals.”
The women did not know how to respond to him but his reputation was spreading. Overmars had a nickname. “Geilneef” is a swear word in Dutch for a man who displays sexually obtrusive behaviour. A sort of “horny cousin”, as one native speaker says.