The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
Keisuke Osako keeps Sanfrecce Hiroshima in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sanfrecce Hiroshima say no — this time
The offer from Yokohama F. Marinos for Tolgay Arslan 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Keisuke Osako out for 18 days
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Keisuke Osako, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Keisuke Osako in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sanfrecce Hiroshima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv expected to open talks for Sota Nakamura
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Sanfrecce Hiroshima will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Sho Sasaki
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sanfrecce Hiroshima, another week without a signature from Sho Sasaki.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Sanfrecce Hiroshima
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market10 Aug 2026
A long bet from Sanfrecce Hiroshima on Yosuke Ueda
He is 16, and nobody at Sanfrecce Hiroshima signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Takuma Asano runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Match No goals between Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Kawasaki Frontale
- Player ratings Nothing got past Hayao Kawabe
- Player ratings The referee tires of Hayato Araki