Following Ajax, PSV will also come up with a response on Monday to the plans for a Super League, an initiative of twelve clubs from the European top countries. General director Toon Gerbrands is particularly afraid that the arrival of a new top competition will put a bomb under the current competitions in Europe. PSV has no plans to join the initiators of the Super League in the long term.
“It is the right of every club to investigate what is good for the future. We all do that all the time, including PSV”, Gerbrands emphasizes on Monday in a meeting with Football International. “We are also looking at whether a Beneliga could be something or not. But the announcement of these clubs to set up a Super League seems to me as a form of power play which will not lead to such a competition. The entire football world is fairly unanimous about this initiative, which is quite unique. If the Super League continues, existing leagues will be blown up “, the concerned PSV director warns.
Ajax refuses to take a position on Super League already
The club management of Ajax does not intend to respond officially to the plans regarding the Super League.
The plans for the Super League come as a big shock to the KNVB. “This news has hit hard. This was really a night robbery, so you can call it. Totally unexpected. This is really unprecedented poker what those clubs play”, Secretary General Gijs de Jong said on behalf of the football association. The top executive was recently engaged in conversations about the restructuring of European top football. “There was an agreement for a new Champions League format, which has been discussed with all parties for a long time,” said the astonished De Jong.
According to De Jong, Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, the head of the ECA club association, was closely involved in the meetings on the new format of the Champions League from 2024. “He is the man who negotiated on behalf of all clubs through the ECA and now he suddenly wants to go in a different direction with twelve clubs. And then you come up with a press statement about it the night before it is hammered off. The coming days will show whether it is the ultimate attempt to get more money and say or whether they really want it persevere. “
“But I think the latter is quite a lot,” continues De Jong. Especially because clubs from the two other major leagues, the French and the German, do not want to participate. The reaction is in any case unprecedented, I have really never seen a line drawn in the sand so jointly. federations, by the clubs, by the leagues, by the supporters. ” De Jong has not yet had any contact with Edwin van der Sar, who is associated with the ECA as vice president. “He is indeed sitting next to Agnelli at the ECA, but there too the importance of the national leagues and a fair and open playing field has always been advocated. So that will be no different now. But it will be high game anyway. Tomorrow (Tuesday, Ed.) we will know more soon, I think. Is it negotiation and do they want to put pressure on the meeting or are they really going to try to get this through?