The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Gen Kato says Nagoya Grampus 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.
Market22 Feb 2027
Daiki Hotta comes home
The shirt still fits. Daiki Hotta is back at Nagoya Grampus, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Sho Inagaki 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 Nagoya Grampus this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Nagoya Grampus
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Kensuke Nagai makes it 500
500 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Nagoya Grampus training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryuji Izumi 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
3 matches without a goal for Nagoya Grampus
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Yohei Takeda gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market22 Feb 2027
Nagoya Grampus promote Yosuke Mitoma from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yosuke Mitoma 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
- Market Genki Hasebe steps up from the Nagoya Grampus academy
- Market One of our own: Kaoru Furuhashi joins the Nagoya Grampus first team
- Match A bad afternoon for Nagoya Grampus against Albirex Niigata