And they keep banging about how young their squad is when in fact it isn’t really. Wijnaldum is young in age (20 years) yet has 4 years of Eredivisie experience. Christian Eriksen from Ajax is younger and less experienced yet nobody is saying how young he is.

For Feyenoord to go out of this mess they need to sort things out internally first. Then use those young talents and slowly close the gap to the Dutch top. That is if they can keep their talents. De Guzman already left on a free, Castaignos signed for Inter and who knows how long they can keep hold of Wijnaldum and Fer.

Having said that Feyenoord must be feeling the pressure with such a young team, shown last Saturdy when two of their players (Wijnaldum and de Vrij) left the pitch in tears after another late defeat.

The problem for Feyenoord may be next year if their bright young things do leave. Castaignos is off to Inter, Wijnaldum may end up at Liverpool and a couple of the others including captain Leroy Fer can’t be expected to hang around for much longer.

I think the saga will continue……..

Great article keep up the good work

Does this mean that clubs are regulated financially better in mainland Europe and they are forced into such states having to rely on youth, rather than being allowed to just carrying on spending like nothing wrong, as happens over here.

This could almost be the start of a new club, having to go through the worst to start afresh, such as lower league clubs have over here (most recently Chester). Although they are obviously a much bigger team, the academy of such a club should produce players which at the very least can be sold on to put them on a better footing, and then go from there.

I hope Feyenoord stay up, but maybe the demise of a big club, might just scare other teams around Europe and make them realise that somewhere the big spending has to stop and to be more realistic.