Izu Onunta

Striker - Feyenoord
28 Aug 2027
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Marked for Izu Onunta

52 Edition

The Feyenoord Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match26 Jul 2027

Feyenoord are top

81 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Market26 Jul 2027

Not going: Izu Onunta stays at Feyenoord

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” De Graafschap had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at Feyenoord

Barış Alper Yılmaz and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market26 Jul 2027

Jordan Bos raises the bar for Feyenoord

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Feyenoord heard it as anything else.

Squad26 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Feyenoord

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jordan Bos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Gonçalo Borges stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gonçalo Borges and Feyenoord agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Tristan van Gilst gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Givairo Read has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Feyenoord will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market26 Jul 2027

The Mika Mármol question follows Feyenoord around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mika Mármol’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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51 Edition

The Feyenoord Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad19 Jul 2027

A falling-out at Feyenoord

Givairo Read and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market19 Jul 2027

Mannou Berger moves on

Twente pay $470.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad19 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Feyenoord

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mika Mármol was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market19 Jul 2027

De Graafschap join the queue for Izu Onunta

Add another name to the list: De Graafschap have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Izu Onunta. The answer from Feyenoord has not changed — yet.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Izu Onunta stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Izu Onunta and Feyenoord agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Zidane Iqbal gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Mika Mármol gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mika Mármol is on it.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Tsuyoshi Watanabe knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Feyenoord, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market19 Jul 2027

The Givairo Read story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Givairo Read signs something — a contract at Feyenoord or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief