The Shonan Bellmare Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Shonan Bellmare get their man
The chase for Hiiro Komori ended with $370.0K changing hands and Urawa Reds out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yuto Suzuki 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 Shonan Bellmare this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Keigo Watanabe 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Tomoya Fujii
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Shonan Bellmare and Ten Miyagi
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Shonan Bellmare, another week without a signature from Ten Miyagi.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Shonan Bellmare
12 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 Shonan Bellmare on Akira Mitoma
He is 14, and nobody at Shonan Bellmare signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shonan Bellmare buy the years ahead of Miki Kawashima
He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Shonan Bellmare pick somebody else ahead of Shusuke Ota
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Player ratings Kosuke Onose was the difference for Shonan Bellmare
- Match Point won or two lost for Shonan Bellmare?
- Player ratings Koki Tachi spends the afternoon fouling