Owner Beerschot-Wilrijk'm sure his team next season in 1A plays: everything is on the table, KV Mechelen bags

Belgian Football, “We are not 90, but 100 percent sure that we'll soon be in 1A play.” Thanks to the file Clean Hands, says Francis Vrancken, co-owner of Beerschot-Wilrijk. “Everything is on the table, KV Mechelen bags.” Titelfinale or not Saturday.

“We have the promotion bite.” In an interview with this newspaper showed Beerschoteigenaar Francis Vrancken there last night, no doubt about that. At the Kiel rays they are already longer that she was more than a suspicion that the other titelfinalist KV Mechelen soon will be sentenced for a omkopingszaak from the previous season. Now also wants one of the purple-and-white board that for the first time publicly say.

“With the information we have, I dare say that there is no way back for KV Mechelen,” said Vrancken, who, like the Saudi prince Abdullah bin Mosaad half of Beerschots clubaandelen possession. “Our attorney is very close to the dossier ‘Clean Hands’ and, according to him, it can not be that KV Mechelen will be relegated to the first amateurklasse. The elements in the dossier, there is no doubt about that. Therefore, we would anyway rise to 1A. It may sound a little arrogant, but we do not take into account more with a 1B-scenario for next season.”

Warfare

Next would be the federal public prosecutor's office, the Belgian football association full access to the documents in the file concerning the omkoopzaak that KV Mechelen is called. Via estate agent Dejan Veljkovic would Malinwa Waasland-Beveren at the end of last season, have approached to the degradatiestrijd to influence. Mechelen fell, although to 1B, but may now be an additional degradation. A few phone calls that the court afluisterde with Veljkovic would be incriminating info can bring.