Logan Erb

Goalkeeper - Vissel Kobe
8 Jan 2029
Monday
Process
127 Edition

The Vissel Kobe Gazette

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Yuta Goke says Vissel Kobe 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.

Market

Daiya Maekawa wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Vissel Kobe hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

The Rikuto Hirose talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vissel Kobe know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

Back issues
120 Edition

The Vissel Kobe Gazette

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Yuya Osako says Vissel Kobe 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.

Market

Logan Erb asks to leave Vissel Kobe

“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.

Squad

Ryan Mmaee stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ryan Mmaee and Vissel Kobe agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

111 Edition

The Vissel Kobe Gazette

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Diego is on his way

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Vissel Kobe against Gamba Osaka

0-1 to Gamba Osaka, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Takuya Iwanami 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.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Radek Šiler

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Market

Talks stall between Vissel Kobe and Logan Erb

“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.

Squad

Taisei Miyashiro called up by his country

A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Vissel Kobe that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.

In brief