“You will take it a little bit into account and you know it can happen. But I did not expect it to come in so hard for me,” Janssen said in front of the camera of Ziggo Sport In Utrecht, where he attended the game between FC Utrecht and FC Sheriff as an analyst.
The decline of Vitesse: how club completely collapsed in over three years
“For those 18,000 people who are always there, for the entire supporters and all the club employees, the world collapses. You are very shocked, although I have already spoken to people who say: we are going to fight for it, we hope that the club can still be saved,” said the former midfielder.
A few percent chance
Janssen also knows that there has often been mismanagement at Vitesse in recent years. “A lot has not gone well. I don’t contradict that. But now there are people who want to do the right thing for the club: entrepreneurs from the region who want to take over the club, but that is now impeded because things have gone wrong in the past.” Janssen sees “a few percent chance” that things will be fine in Arnhem. “But every percent is one.”