Sem Steijn

Central Midfielder - Feyenoord
15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Sem Steijn

2 Edition

The Feyenoord Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Feyenoord spend $9.9M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $9.9M has been paid because Thomas Nainggolan is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Squad

A move Thomas Nainggolan 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. Thomas Nainggolan is living that version at Feyenoord, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Twente come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Feyenoord did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Sem Steijn 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.

Squad

Sem Steijn signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sem Steijn commits to Feyenoord for another 5 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Feyenoord

Gernot Trauner 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.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Feyenoord Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Raheem Sterling 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.

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Feyenoord say no — this time

The offer from De Graafschap for Chris-Kévin Nadje was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Gernot Trauner signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gernot Trauner commits to Feyenoord for another 1 years.

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Gernot Trauner in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Feyenoord this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ayase Ueda falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Eyes on Jordan Lotomba again

The phone has started ringing about Jordan Lotomba again, and this time the name on the line is Cambuur. Feyenoord are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief