Johan Derksen did not like the broadcasts of the Champions League on RTL7. Presenter Humberto Tan took place on Tuesday next to Jan Boskamp and Ron Vlaar, while Wesley Sneijder and Dirk Kuyt were present on Wednesday around Sporting Portugal – Ajax (1-5). According to Derksen, both the presenter and the analysts were below average.
“It is not usual for us to say something from colleagues,” Derksen said with a wink on Thursday evening. “But it didn’t seem like anything at all.” Derksen himself provides the analysis of the Europa League and the Conference League on Veronica, the channel that broadcast the Champions League matches last season.At the time, Wilfred Genee and Hélène Hendriks presented, with analysts such as Derksen, Wim Kieft, René van der Gijp and Dick Advocaat as regular guests. “That Humberto can’t do it at all”, says Derksen. “He has no knowledge. Die Kuyt is kicking open doors. Wesley is trying to make something of it.”
“We saw Ron Vlaar with Jan (Boskamp, ed.) on Tuesday, that didn’t seem like anything,” concludes Derksen. It did not please table mate Kieft how Vlaar reacted on Tuesday to the documentary Força Koeman, in which Ronald Koeman is followed at Barcelona. “Ron Vlaar completely went along with Ronald Koeman’s emotion after that documentary was made. But that’s just how it goes at the top. You’re in the biggest club, you’re always under tension, and you get paid royally for that. If anyone knows it’s like this, it’s Koeman.”
Podcast maker Yordi Yamali of FC Afkicken, sometimes also an analyst on the ESPN talk show Voetbal Talk, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday night that he could not imagine that Humberto Tan had a ‘nice evening’. “Analysts who don’t know a player, who want to set the pace and jokingly close the show because they want to go home. What an incredible debacle is the CL on RTL. And it comes from SBS. My goodness,” said Yamali. The tweet was liked by ESPN analyst Arnold Bruggink and also present on Thursday evening around European matches.