The Avispa Fukuoka Herald
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Avispa Fukuoka bid $1.3M for Shumpei Naruse
The offer went to Kashiwa Reysol this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Shoya Nakajima gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Shoya Nakajima has just signed for Avispa Fukuoka, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Luna Iwamoto due for a Avispa Fukuoka medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Avispa Fukuoka rebuffed over Edwuin Cetré
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Estudiantes have kept their man, and Avispa Fukuoka go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Avispa Fukuoka make their move for Tomoya Inukai
$300.0K on the table at Kashiwa Reysol. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Kazuki Fujimoto
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Avispa Fukuoka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Shintaro Nago was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
Avispa Fukuoka promote Hotaru Doan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hotaru Doan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Shinji Suzuki joins the Avispa Fukuoka first team
- Market Wataru Kamada steps up from the Avispa Fukuoka academy
- Market Takehiro Ueda steps up from the Avispa Fukuoka academy