Hadj Moussa Transfer Collapse: Feyenoord Rejects Deal Over Bank Guarantee

A football is placed on the pitch, the entire Eredivisie atmosphere seems to stop – I sit here, holding my notebook, staring blankly at the empty space where a player's hand once waved. Anis Hadj Moussa, 25-year-old Algerian player, whom Johan Derksen called 'a decent right winger', not a 'wonder player'. Yet the missed €42.5 million fee has the entire Dutch media buzzing. The story began with a podcast discussion, where Derksen and Henk Kuipers repeatedly criticized Feyenoord's management for not compromising. They argue that if Al-Ittihad had provided a bank guarantee – something Dutch clubs consider 'standard' – the deal would have gone through. But Al-Ittihad refused. According to Derksen, 'the directors would never do that for themselves', but they did it to Moussa. I'm not a reporter based in Rotterdam; I'm Hồ Hiếu, the Vietnamese journalist following football from Guangzhou, but this story hits me like a pause before a penalty kick. Why? Because it reminds us that in football, money isn't always the real heartbeat. It's the sigh of a player who's been held back, a body map that could change if not released.