Support for Ronald Koeman regarding Joey Veerman: “I understand that.”

In the past few days, much has been discussed in the Netherlands about the issue Joey Veerman-Ronald Koeman. After the match PSV - FC Twente, Veerman, for the cameras of ESPN, said that the midfielder no longer needs to be called up by the national team coach and, from many quarters, the PSV player is also supported.

Among others, Chris Woerts, Willem van Hanegem and Hugo Borst took it up for the PSV midfielder. Borst wrote in his column for Algemeen Dagblad that Koeman has committed character assassination against Veerman and Woerts spoke about a knife in the back of the midfielder.

Nevertheless, there is also a lot of criticism of the statements made by the man from Volendam. Analyst Johan Derksen is, in fact, completely on Koeman's side.

Joey Veerman is telling tearful stories and Hugo Borst already called it character assassination, but that is not correct. Koeman has something against Joey Veerman's attitude and I understand that, '' says De Snor on Curaçao in an item from Doordekken of Today Inside.

After that, Derksen goes on to discuss the press conferences that Koeman gave in March in which Veerman was also mentioned. ''Against Excelsior he played well, but not in the big matches. Then, at the press conference, he was asked whether it had to do with Veerman's character, and then Koeman said: 'Primarily'. And I thought that was a very decent answer'', the bearded analyst is of the opinion.

De Snor is also not happy about the interview the PSV player gave after the match against FC Twente. ''He said he has better players in those positions. And now Joey Veerman's honor has been completely injured, and he doesn't want to play under Koeman in the Netherlands national team anymore. Well, that works out well for Ronald, because he wasn't planning to put him on the field either. Another case of a wounded ego,'' said Derksen.