The Yokohama F. Marinos Courier
Squad6 Dec 2027
A fracture rules Ken Matsubara out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Yokohama F. Marinos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Yokohama F. Marinos
Rubén Blanco 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.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
A promise honoured at Yokohama F. Marinos
Something was said to Ren Kato and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
When it matters, Dean David plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market6 Dec 2027
Daiya Tono linked with a move away
The name of Daiya Tono keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Yokohama F. Marinos say nothing, which says plenty.
Match6 Dec 2027
Yokohama F. Marinos in the hunt for Europe
Position 5, 53 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
The manager makes Toichi Suzuki a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Yokohama F. Marinos. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market6 Dec 2027
The shop window has Kai Eltchetabu Bright in it
Yokohama F. Marinos have let the market know Kai Eltchetabu Bright can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
The manager plants his flag on Daiya Tono
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Daiya Tono’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Squad Word from the training ground: Everton Galdino
- Squad Taishi Matsumoto is out on the grass again
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Jean Claude at Shanghai Port