The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ryuji Izumi 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Nagoya Grampus
Lucas Siqueira 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nagoya Grampus find a way past Kashima Antlers
Kashima Antlers made Nagoya Grampus work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Keiya Shiihashi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Keiya Shiihashi, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Nagoya Grampus are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Sho Inagaki
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Yudai Kimura
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Kensuke Nagai could not find anything
5.68. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Akinari Kawazura
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 8 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
In brief
- Market Haruto Suzuki leaves for nothing
- The terraces The press have found their man in Daniel Schmidt
- The terraces The stand has a song for Daniel Schmidt