The Shonan Bellmare Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ko Shimura due for a Shonan Bellmare medical
Everything agreed with Omiya Ardija, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Shonan Bellmare come up short against Kashima Antlers
Kashima Antlers left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shonan Bellmare promote Koji Honda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Koji Honda 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
Daiki Haraguchi steps up from the Shonan Bellmare academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daiki 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
One of our own: Sho Osako joins the Shonan Bellmare first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sho Osako 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 Genki Nakata from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Genki Nakata 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Kai Shibato in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Shonan Bellmare are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Hotaru Minamino left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Takumi Nagaishi is in the works
- Player ratings Kosuke Onose was unplayable
- Squad Hiroya Matsumoto falls out with a teammate over standards