Jo

Striker - Sagan Tosu
14 Oct 2026
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Marked for Jo

3 Edition

The Sagan Tosu Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2026

Ryota Izumori decides it from twelve yards

5 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Reiya Morishita breaks a bone — 109 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 109 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match12 Aug 2026

Sagan Tosu through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Omiya Ardija, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market17 Aug 2026

Sagan Tosu say no — this time

The offer from Vissel Kobe for Kenta Nishizawa was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Eitaro Matsuda

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match15 Aug 2026

4 matches without a win for Sagan Tosu

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sagan Tosu are no longer polite ones.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Kenta Nishizawa 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 Sagan Tosu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Yasuki Kimoto falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

The kick that got away from Nagi Matsumoto

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

In brief

  • Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Sora Ogawa
  • Player ratings The chances came and went for Jo
  • Match Point won or two lost for Sagan Tosu?
Back issues
2 Edition

The Sagan Tosu Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ryota Izumori keeps Sagan Tosu in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market10 Aug 2026

Iván Ojeda arrives at Sagan Tosu in a $240.0K statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Sagan Tosu have paid $240.0K for Iván Ojeda, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Kenta Nishizawa 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 Sagan Tosu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ryo Shiohama falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Ryo Shiohama

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ryo Shiohama, and the manager let it.

Match8 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Sagan Tosu against Kashiwa Reysol

0‑1 to Kashiwa Reysol, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market10 Aug 2026

Sagan Tosu and Jo are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

The chances came and went for Jo

8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

1 Edition

The Sagan Tosu Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Aug 2026

Kenta Nishizawa signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kenta Nishizawa and Sagan Tosu agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Sagan Tosu

Jo 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Sagan Tosu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kenta Nishizawa 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

Kenta Nishizawa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Sagan Tosu and Ryota Izumori

“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.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Ryo Shiohama runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief