Thomas Beelen

Central Defender - Feyenoord
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Thomas Beelen

7 Edition

The Feyenoord Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jakub Moder puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Feyenoord, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Nacho Ferri, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91

A mark of 7.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Feyenoord say no — this time

The offer from ADO Den Haag for Thomas Beelen 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

Tempers go at Feyenoord

Tsuyoshi Watanabe 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.

Match

Feyenoord come up short against Vitesse

Vitesse left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

One of those days for Gonçalo Borges

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Feyenoord

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

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.

Squad

Feyenoord are still strangers to each other

10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Feyenoord Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Feyenoord baulk at the price for Vangelis Pavlidis

Benfica wanted more than $36.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Player ratings

Sem Steijn scores twice — 8.39

Two goals and a mark of 8.39 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Luciano Valente runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Business is business: Jerry St. Juste goes

Standard Liege paid $2.7M and Feyenoord took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

NEC tell Feyenoord: Gonzalo Crettaz is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

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

Squad

Tsuyoshi Watanabe 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.

Match

Feyenoord find a way past Excelsior

Excelsior made Feyenoord work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

A row about effort at Feyenoord

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

In brief