Hotaru Ito

Left Midfielder - Sagan Tosu U18
8 May 2027
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5 Edition

The Sagan Tosu Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 Aug 2026

The knee: Hotaru Ito out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sagan Tosu lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match26 Aug 2026

Sagan Tosu out of the cup

Yokohama F. Marinos ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market31 Aug 2026

Sagan Tosu turn down Urawa Reds for Reiya Morishita

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match29 Aug 2026

The wait goes on for Sagan Tosu

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Too dear: Sagan Tosu walk away from Katsunori Ueebisu

$67.0K was the most the club would pay and Jubilo Iwata were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Ryo Shiohama 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.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Mitsuki Hidaka stays at Vissel Kobe as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Sagan Tosu will try again when the window opens; Vissel Kobe may not be selling by then.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ayumu Toyoda beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match29 Aug 2026

Sagan Tosu caught on 90 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Shonan Bellmare scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

In brief

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4 Edition

The Sagan Tosu Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad24 Aug 2026

Ryota Izumori wins the shoot-out

3 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Match19 Aug 2026

Sagan Tosu through in the cup

A 0‑0 win over Urawa Reds, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Hotaru Ito

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sagan Tosu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market24 Aug 2026

Sagan Tosu say no — this time

The offer from Gamba Osaka for Kenta Nishizawa was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Kanta Jojo was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. 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.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Fee done, terms next for Mitsuki Hidaka

Sagan Tosu and Vissel Kobe have settled on $90.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Deadline passes with 16 signed and 1 gone

That is the business done at Sagan Tosu 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.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

No deal for Hiroki Abe at that price

Sagan Tosu offered $110.0K; Urawa Reds said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Sagan Tosu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kenta Nishizawa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief