The Feyenoord Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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
- Squad Words at Feyenoord training over how hard people work
- Market Heracles watching Kelvin Neijenhuis
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Thomas Nainggolan
- Boardroom Feyenoord spend it where nobody looks