Danilo Gomes

Right Midfielder - Albirex Niigata
31 Aug 2026
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Marked for Danilo Gomes

4 Edition

The Albirex Niigata Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad24 Aug 2026

Baumann stands alone

10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match19 Aug 2026

Albirex Niigata bow out of the cup

Vissel Kobe go through and Albirex Niigata go home, 2‑5 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market24 Aug 2026

Terms done: Baumann is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Beerschot waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Albirex Niigata is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market24 Aug 2026

Danilo Gomes hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Albirex Niigata can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Noriyoshi Sakai scores twice — 8.17

Two goals and a mark of 8.17 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

A cup hiding at Vissel Kobe leaves Albirex Niigata explaining themselves

2-5, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Match22 Aug 2026

No end in sight to Albirex Niigata's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Albirex Niigata has to find a result from somewhere.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Deadline passes with 15 signed and 1 gone

That is the business done at Albirex Niigata until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Yuta Toyokawa

Albirex Niigata asked and Omiya Ardija said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

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The Albirex Niigata Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Aug 2026

A career in one shirt: Fumiya Hayakawa

16 seasons and 174 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Yuji Hoshi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yuji Hoshi and Albirex Niigata agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Albirex Niigata

Yuji Hoshi 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Albirex Niigata may not be able to give Danilo Gomes what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Danilo Gomes wants continental football; whether Albirex Niigata can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match1 Aug 2026

Albirex Niigata come up short against Kawasaki Frontale

Kawasaki Frontale left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Danilo Gomes wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Albirex Niigata know it.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

One of those days for Danilo Gomes

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Albirex Niigata and Yuji Hoshi

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market3 Aug 2026

36 months and counting on Soya Fujiwara

Still no offer on the table, and Soya Fujiwara’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief