Marked for Jakub Moder
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match7 Jun 2027
70 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market7 Jun 2027
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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Raheem Sterling wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Feyenoord hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Wassim Bouziane is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Jakub Moder 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Jordan Lotomba again, and this time the name on the line is Roda. Feyenoord are listening politely and promising nothing.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Feyenoord release $5.4M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
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Boardroom17 May 2027
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad17 May 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Feyenoord will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market17 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Feyenoord is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 May 2027
Givairo Read 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.
Market17 May 2027
“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.
Squad17 May 2027
The one award nobody else on the pitch can win goes to Fernando Tapia, on 30 clean sheets across the season. Keepers wait a career for a season like it.
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Upbeat
Squad10 May 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match10 May 2027
70 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad10 May 2027
Jakub Moder 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“I watch every Feyenoord game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at ADO Den Haag runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad10 May 2027
When it matters, Sem Steijn plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Apr 2027
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.
Market26 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Jakub Moder 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.
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Upbeat
Match3 Apr 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 35 matches without defeat is a foundation Feyenoord did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Apr 2027
18 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Jakub Moder 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
21 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oussama Targhalline, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Feyenoord release $5.4M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I watch every Feyenoord game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Twente runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Upbeat
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match27 Mar 2027
17 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match27 Mar 2027
3‑0, and Luciano Valente took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Feyenoord tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match27 Mar 2027
Nobody wants to play Feyenoord right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Jakub Moder 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Fernando Tapia has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
The terraces29 Mar 2027
The crowd has taken to Senne Vugts
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Raheem Sterling was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.38. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Steady
Match20 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten Feyenoord
The unbeaten run reaches 29. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market22 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Bart Nieuwkoop
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bart Nieuwkoop will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Feyenoord the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Jakub Moder 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The team sheet said everything about Gernot Trauner
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Gernot Trauner.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Feyenoord, and 0 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.38 on the card, and the Feyenoord support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Match13 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten Feyenoord
The unbeaten run reaches 28. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match15 Feb 2027
Feyenoord refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 55 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match13 Feb 2027
14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Sem Steijn
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market15 Feb 2027
“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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I watch every Feyenoord game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Groningen runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“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.
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Upbeat
Match6 Feb 2027
Whatever happens, Feyenoord do not lose
27 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market8 Feb 2027
Groningen 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Jakub Moder 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Feyenoord training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mika Mármol is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match6 Feb 2027
Three points for Feyenoord, 1‑0 the final word against Utrecht in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Sem Steijn at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Feyenoord.
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Upbeat
Match30 Jan 2027
Whatever happens, Feyenoord do not lose
26 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gernot Trauner
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Feyenoord lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.52 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The Vitesse deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Bart Nieuwkoop reports back to Feyenoord with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Jakub Moder 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.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match30 Jan 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Raheem Sterling’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Feyenoord.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gernot Trauner
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Feyenoord lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 19 matches without defeat is a foundation Feyenoord did not have in the autumn.
Market14 Dec 2026
Corinthians pay $35.9M, 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.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
Feyenoord sell a favourite for $35.9M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Ayase Ueda was one of the reasons people came, and $35.9M does not replace that by itself.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jakub Moder 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Feyenoord training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anis Hadj Moussa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Groningen to sit and watch. I want to come back to Feyenoord and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gernot Trauner
125 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Feyenoord lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match31 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Feyenoord did not have in the autumn.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Givairo Read 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Feyenoord training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anis Hadj Moussa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ayase Ueda named player of the month
The award goes to Ayase Ueda, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Feyenoord release $5.4M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Feyenoord, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
Gernot Trauner damages knee ligaments — 133 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 133 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match24 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against De Graafschap, and it could have been more.
Match26 Oct 2026
Feyenoord refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 25 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ayase Ueda takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match24 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Feyenoord did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Aymen Sliti, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.08
A mark of 8.08 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jakub Moder 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
One of those days for Ayase Ueda
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Aymen Sliti has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gian-Luca Aserie out for 47 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Feyenoord will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Givairo Read 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jakub Moder 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Vitesse are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Feyenoord will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Sem Steijn
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Sem Steijn has come out of that comparison in the side, and Feyenoord have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.20, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.