The Vissel Kobe Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Yoshiki Narahara is a medical away from Vissel Kobe
The deal with Sagan Tosu is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vissel Kobe
Gotoku Sakai 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Taiki Watanabe
Vissel Kobe asked and Yokohama F. Marinos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Yuta Miyahara attracts admirers
The name of Yuta Miyahara has come up in conversations Vissel Kobe were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
Wataru Kubo steps up from the Vissel Kobe academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Wataru Kubo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kento Haraguchi steps up from the Vissel Kobe academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kento Haraguchi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Yuki Doan steps up from the Vissel Kobe academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yuki Doan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Yoshinori Muto runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Vissel Kobe 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Gotoku Sakai was the difference for Vissel Kobe
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Tatsuya Tabira dropped after a run of poor form