Victor Ehibe

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185 Edition

The Avispa Fukuoka Herald

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Feb 2030

Ian Harkes says Avispa Fukuoka went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market11 Feb 2030

Agustín Occhiato asks to leave Avispa Fukuoka

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market11 Feb 2030

Avispa Fukuoka turn down Gamba Osaka for Saad Al-Salouli

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

In brief

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171 Edition

The Avispa Fukuoka Herald

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Nov 2029

Victor Ehibe says Avispa Fukuoka went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market5 Nov 2029

Fernando Hernández 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 Avispa Fukuoka can pretend not to have heard.

Market5 Nov 2029

Only the photograph left for Víctor Barona

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Víctor Barona will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Avispa Fukuoka the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

159 Edition

The Avispa Fukuoka Herald

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market13 Aug 2029

Matt Dibley-Dias puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Avispa Fukuoka, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match11 Aug 2029

Avispa Fukuoka leave it late against Vissel Kobe

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 86th, and Vissel Kobe spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Squad13 Aug 2029

Tempers go at Avispa Fukuoka

Tomoya Miki 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.

Market13 Aug 2029

Víctor Barona is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Avispa Fukuoka is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad13 Aug 2029

Words at Avispa Fukuoka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daiki Matsuoka 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.

Match11 Aug 2029

Avispa Fukuoka see off Vissel Kobe

Three points for Avispa Fukuoka, 1‑0 the final word against Vissel Kobe in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad13 Aug 2029

Kazuki Fujita shuts the door again

11 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.

Player ratings13 Aug 2029

Kohei Okuno shuts the door

Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad13 Aug 2029

No hiding place for Tobías Moriceau

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

In brief

115 Edition

The Avispa Fukuoka Herald

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad9 Oct 2028

Masayuki Okuyama breaks a bone — 54 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Avispa Fukuoka

Shintaro Nago 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.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Daiki Matsuoka 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.

Match7 Oct 2028

Shu Morooka sends Avispa Fukuoka past Gamba Osaka

It finished 2‑1, and it was Shu Morooka’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Avispa Fukuoka.

Player ratings9 Oct 2028

One of those days for Shu Morooka

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Victor Ehibe 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.

In brief

110 Edition

The Avispa Fukuoka Herald

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad4 Sep 2028

Ryotaro Meshino keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Avispa Fukuoka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Daiki Matsuoka 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.

Match2 Sep 2028

Still nobody has beaten Avispa Fukuoka

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Victor Ehibe 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 Avispa Fukuoka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

A masterclass from Tomoya Miki

Marked 8.52 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Yu Hashimoto 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.

Match2 Sep 2028

Avispa Fukuoka share the spoils with Sanfrecce Hiroshima

A 2‑2 draw with Sanfrecce Hiroshima leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

Kenji-Van Boto could not find anything

4.84. 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 ratings4 Sep 2028

Off the pace: Victor Ehibe

A mark of 5.76 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

105 Edition

The Avispa Fukuoka Herald

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings31 Jul 2028

Kohei Okuno was immovable

28 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad31 Jul 2028

A move Victor Ehibe would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Victor Ehibe is living that version at Avispa Fukuoka, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Victor Ehibe is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Avispa Fukuoka

Tomoya Miki 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.

Market31 Jul 2028

Tomoki Kondo moves on

Kashima Antlers pay $690.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Words at Avispa Fukuoka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daiki Matsuoka 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.

Boardroom31 Jul 2028

Avispa Fukuoka beat the market to Agustín Occhiato from Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Agustín Occhiato has pre-agreed a move to Avispa Fukuoka, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match29 Jul 2028

Avispa Fukuoka see off Vegalta Sendai

Three points for Avispa Fukuoka, 1‑0 the final word against Vegalta Sendai in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings31 Jul 2028

Nobody could get near Tomoya Miki

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief