Sport Kort: football clubs spend less on transfers due to corona Sport

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Football clubs spend less on transfers due to corona

sport">12:43 pm Due to lower turnover due to the corona crisis, the football clubs in the major European competitions have spent less money on transfers this summer than in previous years, calculated the Sports Business Group (SBG) of accountancy firm Deloitte.

sport">In the English Premier League, the richest league in the world, 1.1 billion pounds (nearly 1.3 billion euros) was spent in the transfer window that closed on Tuesday evening. That was the lowest amount since 2015 and the first time since the global financial crisis of 2008 that the amount fell for two years in a row.

sport">Of the five largest competitions, only the German Bundesliga spent more money than in 2020. “Club records have been broken. But perhaps most notably, all of this has been achieved with lower spending than we’ve seen in the previous two summers,” said Dan Jones, SBG’s chief executive.

sport">The English clubs Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea spent the most. But clubs in the Premier League as a whole have cut their spending as a percentage of projected revenues from 18 to 10 per cent.

sport">The number of free transfers, such as that of Lionel Messi from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain, rose. The number of high-value deals, such as the £100m paid Manchester City to Aston Villa for England attacking midfielder Jack Grealish, also rose.

sport">Italy’s Serie A was the highest-spending competition after the Premier League, but the clubs still paid less than half the amount of the Premier League.

Board member Peter Fossen leaves PSV

sport">11:23 am Peter Fossen leaves the management of PSV. Fossen was associated with the Eindhoven club in various positions for more than 27 years, the last few years as a member of the board of financial and legal affairs. Fossen will hand over his duties within the board in the coming weeks.

sport">“It is a private decision,” says Fossen on the club’s website. “At the same time, it is difficult to imagine a working life without PSV after such a long time. I have had wonderful years and have been able to celebrate many championships. In addition, thanks to my work in football, I have gained many valuable business and personal contacts. I am very grateful for that.”

sport">The management now consists of general manager Toon Gerbrands, John de Jong (football affairs) and Frans Janssen (commercial affairs).

Fuglsang season over after fall in Benelux Tour

sport">10:24 am For cyclist Jakob Fuglsang, the season ended early after a fall in the Benelux Tour. The 36-year-old Dane from Astana fell in the first leg on Monday and appears to have broken his left collarbone, among other things. He has since undergone successful surgery.

sport">“In the end, surgery turned out to be the best option. We are happy that this happened in Herentals”, said Astana’s team doctor Andrei Michailov. “Unfortunately, that means the end of the season now that there are only six weeks left to race. It is too short a day to be ready for the Tour of Lombardy.”

sport">Fuglsang, winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2019) and the Tour of Lombardy (2020), among others, said he was very disappointed. “It has not been a good season for me, but after the Games I trained so hard to be ready for this fall. Lombardy was my main goal, but I have to accept that it won’t work.”

KNVB reports quietest transfer summer since 2016

sport">08:22 o’clock The KNVB football association registered 609 transfers of football players last summer. The association announced this after the period in which footballers can switch clubs was concluded at midnight on Tuesday evening. The football association speaks of a relatively quiet transfer summer, the quietest since 2016 when 582 transfers were made.

sport">The last transfer was made official on ‘deadline day’ at 23:53: the Swedish left back Gabriel Gudmundsson makes the switch from FC Groningen to the French LOSC Lille. The closing day was hectic as always with 46 transfers.

sport">Within the Netherlands, there were 227 transfers this summer, the KNVB reports. 175 players came to the Netherlands and there were 207 transfers from a Dutch club abroad.

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