FC Volendam chairman Jaap Veerman has revealed they were saved by Micky van de Ven’s move to Tottenham this summer.
The chairman has been speaking publicly in comments relayed by RTL Nieuws amid a growing crisis at the club that has seen the former board dismissed for putting the club in danger.
Veerman is currently president of the supervisory board at the Dutch side following the resignation of Jan Smit and other board members, who were dismissed because they endangered the future of the club.
The supervisory board have reported that those formerly in change had left the club with a negative equity of €3m on a budget of €11m, an unsustainable situation for a club of their size.
That’s led to action and the dismissal of the board, with potential sales on the way to help balance the books, even though Veerman has insisted that will not necessarily be the case.
Instead, he’s revealed the club are now reliant on transfers and potential proceeds from former players, with Van de Ven’s move to Tottenham in the summer having already saved them from the brink.
“We had to take action, otherwise the company judge could blame me for that,” he said.
“We are now betting on transfers and proceeds from former players of ours who go to another club. We were saved last summer because Micky van de Ven moved from VFL Wolfsburg to Tottenham Hotspur for €40m.
“We would have received 15% there but unfortunately, we agreed to 12.5%. But that saved us. I don’t see that happening every year.”
