At Feyenoord there is great frustration about the deal between the Municipality of Rotterdam and Feijenoord Stadium. The Rotterdam club was the only tenant not involved in the discussions. In addition, a potential source of income is completely eliminated. General manager Dennis te Kloese already announced that the last word on this has not yet been spoken.
Chris Woerts can fully understand Te Kloese’s reaction. The former commercial director criticizes the deal. ”The municipality of Rotterdam has developed such an aversion to Feyenoord because of the cancellation of Feyenoord City. You must understand well. It was the wisest decision by Feyenoord, because no club in the Netherlands can finance a stadium worth five hundred million, that is simply not possible. We are not fortunate in Rotterdam to have a council that says: we put our support behind it.”
“A few years ago, 328 million euros were made available for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which is not even in the top ten of most visited museums in the Netherlands,” Woerts continues his story in the podcast Sports clash. ”It is also true that Hugo de Jonge is spending two billion on the renovation of a few stones in the government building that are of no use to anyone. We all think that’s normal, but we all think a nice stadium in Rotterdam is too much.”
”The municipality of Rotterdam shows itself to be a sore loser. In combination with Feijenoord Stadium, they are bad losers. No Feyenoord City, no new stadium and large debts. Now they have sold De Kuip in exchange for housing, which is destroying Feyenoord’s revenue model. All under the direction of Lilian de Leeuw, the director of De Kuip. She concluded a deal without informing her colleagues in the Feyenoord management. Together with the Supervisory Board of Stadion Feijenoord behind the club’s back, a shame.”
