‘He isn’t good… he doesn’t hurt anyone’ – Michael van Gerwen destroys Luke Littler’s rival with brutal assessment

MICHAEL VAN GERWEN has brutally taken purpose astatine Luke Littler's rival Ricardo Pietreczko for "not being precise good".

The German darts ace, 30, infamously squared up to Nuke erstwhile helium was conscionable 17 astatine past year's Belgian Open with a fierce flurry of insults.

The pair person since traded barbs, but Van Gerwen is the latest to measurement successful - suggesting Germany request to up their oche game.

Van Gerwen said: "The spectators successful Germany are phenomenal. I walk 15 weeks a twelvemonth successful Germany, I similar it here.

"[But] Germany needs really, truly bully players. That's what's inactive lacking.

"[Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens and Florian Hempel] play bully darts, but they person to instrumentality the adjacent measurement now. That's important for a state arsenic large arsenic Germany.

"The adjacent measurement is, for example, the Premier League of Darts. There is inactive nary German subordinate there.

"But that would beryllium the adjacent important step."

When asked astir Pietreczko - dubbed Pikachu - aft helium reached the past 16 of the Darts World Cup, MVG delivered a final, almighty blow.

The Dutchman ranted: "Ricardo isn't truly good. He's a bully boy, I similar him. But helium doesn't wounded anyone."

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Never shy to ruffle immoderate feathers, Van Gerwen has besides taken purpose astatine the Premier League enactment up, insisting it "could person been stronger".

MVG said: “It’s an incredibly hard determination for the PDC to take the line-up – I deliberation they did well. 

“It’s rather beardown but it could person been a small spot stronger.

“I miss 1 bully subordinate – Michael Smith.

"But extracurricular that, it’s 8 truly good darts players and that’s what radical privation to see. 

“Moving guardant we privation to make an atmosphere, too.

"It’s important to beryllium a bully subordinate but it’s besides however you travel connected signifier and the amusement you enactment on. That’s each portion of it.

“It’s precise hard for the PDC to prime the line-up, but I inactive deliberation they did well.”