The Feyenoord Gazette
Market14 Aug 2028
Mika Mármol wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Nobody could get near Aymen Sliti
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A move David Min would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. David Min is living that version at Feyenoord, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Feyenoord
Raheem Sterling was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Malcolm Jeng is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A late step up for Mika Mármol
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Feyenoord
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market14 Aug 2028
AZ watching Maxim Dekker
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Feyenoord have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market14 Aug 2028
Jordan Bos wants more than Feyenoord are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
In brief
- Market Feyenoord promote Teun Simons from within
- Match Twente take the points off Feyenoord
- Loan watch Kelvin Neijenhuis counts the days