Pierre van Hooijdonk wonders whether this outlined scenario is a bigger disaster than if the new stadium had gone ahead. Vermeulen: “It’s like being bitten by the dog or the cat. The stadium has just become way too expensive. So that’s not an option either.”
renovation
Vermeulen also sees another problem for Feyenoord. “The Kuip has to be renovated. That costs between 200 and 250 million euros. In those years you have less capacity and you are not allowed to play European football there. And moreover: who is going to contribute that 200 million? to look for money. Nobody is going to get in there. So you are checkmate on all sides.”
“The only thing that happens now is that they put the municipality in front of the block. They will talk to that this week. They will ask whether they will guarantee money that it will cost extra. That will be a very political game.”
Look below for fragments about Dirk Kuijt and Wesley Sneijder in a gambling scandal, PSV coach Roger Schmidt and the regular sections Final Signal (about Leo Horn), Korte Corner (about Dirk Kuijt) and the Eredivisie weekend in a nutshell.
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