My club is dying

Dominus Maximus · January 10, 2013

The last couple of days have been particular hard on fans of former Danish giants Brøndby IF. It is no more than seven years ago that my club won the double with Daniel Agger and Johan Elmander as the star players and Michael Laudrup as head coach.

When the trio left the club the chairman and co-founder Per Bjerregaard decided to step down as general manager and give the responsibility to his son, Anders. And from that moment on the club started to fade, badly.

A lot of players have been brought in over the last seven years, most of them far from the standard demanded from a top tier team. The economy went to s*** and today the club is in its worst state since the Interbank-episode.

Brøndby, once a visionary club, the first one to implement proffessional football in Denmark, is on the brink of bankruptcy. There is no money available and the debt is only getting bigger for every day going by.

The club owes a huge amount of money to the bank and have also been ordered by the court to pay a huge benefit settlement to the players. Apparently Brøndby have neglected to pay players the mandatory 12,5 percent holiday bonus.

The plan is to slim down all costs and hope for a sale. They have asked all staff to accept a reduction in pay but that may not happen.

Worst case scenario is bankruptcy and that just might happen within the next couple of days. Best case scenario some idiot puts up the money and the club goes on a bit longer.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

AE · January 10, 2013