Kento Ueda

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Monday
Process

Marked for Kento Ueda

20 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Danilo Boza 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 The request is on a desk at Urawa Reds, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Renji Hidano says Urawa Reds went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Real improvement from Jumpei Hayakawa at Urawa Reds

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jumpei Hayakawa is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words exchanged at Urawa Reds

Ken Krolicki 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.

Squad

Kento Ueda out for 19 days

The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Kento Ueda, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

The Samuel Gustafson talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Urawa Reds know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Urawa Reds count the cost of losing Kento Ueda

50 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

The Samuel Gustafson talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Urawa Reds know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Ado Onaiwu wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Urawa Reds have no good answer.

In brief

2 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Vegalta Sendai come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Urawa Reds did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

An offer of $580.0K for Ryo Hatsuse

Urawa Reds 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.

Transfer targets

AC Milan tell Urawa Reds: Paolo Doneda 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.

Transfer targets

Urawa Reds make their move for Tomoya Inukai

$310.0K 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $71.0K for Ryuki Miura

Urawa Reds have gone to Jubilo Iwata 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.

Player ratings

Takuro Kaneko was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

Market

One of our own: Kaoru Doan joins the Urawa Reds first team

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

Market

Kento Ueda steps up from the Urawa Reds academy

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

Market

Urawa Reds promote Shinji Ito from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Shinji Ito 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