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Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 06:53
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The KNVB will make a decision on Friday about the Dutch professional leagues. Due to the ban on licensed events, it is not possible to play professional football, even without an audience, until at least 1 September. The Telegraph writes that the KNVB can only take one decision without being “bombarded with various lawsuits”: annul the current season.
“In the eyes of various clubs, director Eric Gudde and associates have scored a bad mark during the corona crisis, but Gudde can take revenge with a solomon judgment about the handling of the 2019-2020 season,” writes the daily. It is stated that Gudde can only make one decision: to end the current season. It is stated that this is the only “objective decision” that the KNVB can make, without “being buried in lawsuits”. ADO The Hague has in Studio Football already announced that he wants to go to court if the club has to be relegated.
The fact that the KNVB acted in the same way in amateur football is called an “important ground”. Despite the fact that the clubs previously emphasized the fact that three quarters of the league has already been played, thinks The Telegraph that the management of the KNVB must decide. “The financial settlement is due to the professional clubs. If they can yield an ounce of objectivity, then it must be possible to get there without having to roll around in the street when distributing the euros. ”
It would mean that the European tickets will be distributed in the same way as last season, while SC Cambuur and De Graafschap will not be promoted. It Algemeen Dagblad writes, on the other hand, that UEFA wants as much as possible the rankings to be maintained, which would mean that Ajax, AZ, Feyenoord, PSV and Willem II would receive the European tickets. There would be three scenarios for relegation.
In the first scenario, the current ranking is maintained, as a result of which ADO and RKC Waalwijk are demoted and Cambuur and De Graafschap are promoted. In the second scenario, nobody promotes or demotes, while the KNVB in the third scenario “consults the clubs and chooses the most supported variant.” It Algemeen Dagblad emphasizes that there will almost certainly not be an Eredivisie season with twenty clubs.
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