The Kashima Antlers Sentinel
Market3 Aug 2026
Monaco watching Tomoki Hayakawa
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kashima Antlers have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Yuma Suzuki raises the bar for Kashima Antlers
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Kashima Antlers heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Leo Ceara signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leo Ceara and Kashima Antlers agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Naomichi Ueda 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 Kashima Antlers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Kashima Antlers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandar Cavric 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Aleksandar Cavric
“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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Kashima Antlers see off Shonan Bellmare
Three points for Kashima Antlers, 1‑0 the final word against Shonan Bellmare in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Yuma Suzuki at his very best
Marked 8.54. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kashima Antlers.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Leo Ceara could have had three
9 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- Market No place for Ryoya Ogawa in the plan
- Market Talks stall between Kashima Antlers and Elber
- Player ratings Ikuma Sekigawa shuts the door