The Vissel Kobe Gazette
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Yosuke Ideguchi scores twice — 8.08
Two goals and a mark of 8.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Daiju Sasaki: 11 seasons and counting
167 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Vissel Kobe know exactly what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Yuya Osako, 36, rolls back the years — 8.08
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gotoku Sakai signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gotoku Sakai and Vissel Kobe agree another 2 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
Matheus Thuler 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 Vissel Kobe hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Match1 Aug 2026
Vissel Kobe see off Vegalta Sendai
Three points for Vissel Kobe, 3‑2 the final word against Vegalta Sendai in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Vissel Kobe
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gotoku Sakai was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vissel Kobe
Matheus Thuler and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
Eyes on Daiju Sasaki again
The phone has started ringing about Daiju Sasaki again, and this time the name on the line is FC Tokyo. Vissel Kobe are listening politely and promising nothing.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Daiya Maekawa
- Player ratings Yuta Goke in the eights
- Market Still no ink between Vissel Kobe and Gotoku Sakai