Despite a big beating at Arsenal last week, PSV is going through quiet and prosperous times. How different is that at Ajax at the moment. A new low was reached there with an abandoned match against Feyenoord and a dismissed technical director. PSV icons Willy and René van de Kerkhof are very surprised by the chaos in Amsterdam. And the brothers are certain: a technical director like Mislintat who spends many millions on completely unknown players will not get a chance at PSV. “That’s not going to happen here.”
“Yet strange things have also happened to us,” says René in the Willy and René Podcast of Omroep Brabant. “Our friend Bruma also came here for more than ten million. Then they would have been better off appointing me at my age.”
But Amsterdam situations did not exist and will not arise, the brothers believe. “We have a much better Supervisory Board at PSV,” says Willy. “And we also have a general manager who has handled technical matters (Marcel Brands). He looks over his shoulder and intervenes if necessary.”
“Ajax is now not a top club, but a troubled club.”
Willy and René do not feel any amusement towards Ajax, but they do feel surprise. “This is also not good for Dutch football,” says Willy. They should be one of the big clubs in the Netherlands, number one according to Ajax itself, but they have dropped to the middle bracket.” René has the same thought. “Ajax is now not a top club but a troubled club. It’s absolutely right that Mislingtat was fired. He is now no longer allowed to go to the Loosdrechtse Plassen.”
“Yesterday was a black day,” says Willy, referring to the rioting Ajax fans. “You really need stricter punishments. They do that in England too. If you throw something on the field, you go to jail for a while. Then they think before they do something like that. And you may have to ban cups in the stands.”
René doesn’t like that. “Then another one will come with a lighter.” Because frisking apparently does not help, the only solution seems to be that fans are only allowed to enter the stadium naked. “Good idea,” Willy laughs. “If there are beautiful ladies around, they pay attention to that and do nothing else.”
Just throw in a syringe
In the podcast, the brothers also discuss PSV’s big defeat against Arsenal and how Bosz can better arm his team against these types of strong opponents.
They are also surprised that PSV player Armel Bella-Kotchap and Ajax player Steven Bergwijn both did not play this weekend after a visit to the dentist. “I couldn’t even walk before the away match against Bastia,” René tells from the old days. “Then Dr. Van den Brekel pushed a syringe into it and then I just played.”
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