The Vegalta Sendai Chronicle
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Vegalta Sendai
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
Vegalta Sendai may not be able to give Facundo Pons what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Facundo Pons wants continental football; whether Vegalta Sendai can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Vegalta Sendai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renji Matsui 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Iván Bella 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 Vegalta Sendai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Iván Bella
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Vegalta Sendai
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Match Vegalta Sendai share the spoils with Gamba Osaka
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Shunta Araki
- Market Vegalta Sendai borrow Iván Calligaris
- Market The market said no: Mateus Moraes stays put