Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 07:51• Daniel Cabot Kerkdijk • Last update: 07:58

The plans about a possible financial injection in Feyenoord are starting to take serious forms, Chris Woerts assures. The sports marketer revealed Monday evening at The the Dutch Summer that technical director Frank Arnesen spoke for the first time with a group of investors from Rotterdam last Saturday. This party wants to put no less than eighty million euros in Feyenoord, but attaches conditions to it.

“Last Saturday Frank spoke for the first time with the group of investors who really want to put serious money in Feyenoord,” Woerts said in the television program. “He actually thought that De Zilvervloot was coming in: ‘We have been promised eighty million.’ He was happy, but the investors want four or five players to leave before they want to invest. You can buy players, but you also have to deal with the salary costs. You still have to unlock it.”

“Nicolai Jörgensen earns 1.7 million to 2 million euros a year and if he doesn’t perform or stay in his contract, those are serious amounts. So there has to be some space first.” Presenter Wilfred Genee was curious about how much money it is. “They want to invest eighty million euros. They really want to do that. Feyenoord has been talking to American investors and private equity parties for a long time. They have flown around the world, but have not received any concrete offer. The Rotterdammers are now fed up and say ‘we as a group of Rotterdammers have to take the club to another level’.”

“You will soon have the new stadium, which we also discussed here: stones or legs. The stones will come, but now the legs. So if that group is really going to make a serious effort for that amount, Feyenoord can participate again.” Johan Derksen would find it remarkable to entrust such an amount to Arnesen: “He regularly has a bad bargain in between.” Woerts: “That’s why I think they said they want to see a number of players leave before they cross the bridge. They are not crazy in Rotterdam. They will put conditions on it. A thorough policy will have to be drawn up, but it is very serious.”