The Shonan Bellmare Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $550.0K for Ryo Hatsuse
Shonan Bellmare have gone to Gamba Osaka with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Shonan Bellmare
Yuto Suzuki 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
Persik tell Shonan Bellmare: José Enrique is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
Omiya Ardija join the queue for Soki Tamura
Add another name to the list: Omiya Ardija have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Soki Tamura. The answer from Shonan Bellmare has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Akira Maeda joins the Shonan Bellmare first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Akira Maeda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shonan Bellmare promote Yuki Soma from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yuki Soma 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nagatomo Kamada steps up from the Shonan Bellmare academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nagatomo Kamada 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Shonan Bellmare get the job done against Kashima Antlers
A 1‑0 win over Kashima Antlers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Shusuke Ota beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
In brief
- Squad Katsuhiro Nakayama is a square peg at Shonan Bellmare
- Player ratings Masaki Ikeda takes the honours
- The dugout The form table has caught Katsuhiro Nakayama