Takehiro Mitoma

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31 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom1 Mar 2027

Deadline passes with 7 signed and 9 gone

That is the business done at Kawasaki Frontale until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Match27 Feb 2027

A bad afternoon for Kawasaki Frontale against Gamba Osaka

0‑2 to Gamba Osaka, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Kento Tachibanada makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Market1 Mar 2027

Still no ink between Kawasaki Frontale and Louis Yamaguchi

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kawasaki Frontale, another week without a signature from Louis Yamaguchi.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Yuichi Maruyama 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.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

Takehiro Doan: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Jesiel slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Jesiel is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Player ratings1 Mar 2027

Kayke was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

Jesiel has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Kawasaki Frontale will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market1 Feb 2027

Derik Lacerda 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 Kawasaki Frontale, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Marcinho wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Kawasaki Frontale can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Transfer targets1 Feb 2027

Door shut on Danilo Boza

Kawasaki Frontale asked and Urawa Reds said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market1 Feb 2027

Kento Minamino steps up from the Kawasaki Frontale academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kento Minamino 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.

Market1 Feb 2027

Takefusa Sakai steps up from the Kawasaki Frontale academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Takefusa Sakai 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.

Market1 Feb 2027

One of our own: Hiroki Ito joins the Kawasaki Frontale first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hiroki Ito is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Takehiro Mitoma stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Takehiro Mitoma and Kawasaki Frontale agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout1 Feb 2027

Sota Miura knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Kawasaki Frontale, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout1 Feb 2027

Jesiel gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jesiel is on it.

In brief