The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Yokohama F. Marinos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sanfrecce Hiroshima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Keisuke Osako goes
TSG Hoffenheim paid $8.4M and Sanfrecce Hiroshima took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
A $8.4M sale, and a town that did not want it
Keisuke Osako has gone, the accounts have $8.4M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Sho Sasaki 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ryo Germain was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Kashima Antlers tell Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Gaku Shibasaki 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Junya Miyoshi steps up from the Sanfrecce Hiroshima academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Junya Miyoshi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sanfrecce Hiroshima promote Yuki Doan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yuki Doan 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tsukasa Morishima signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tsukasa Morishima commits to Sanfrecce Hiroshima for another 3 years.
In brief
- Squad Sanfrecce Hiroshima are still strangers to each other
- Transfer targets Sanfrecce Hiroshima try to borrow Masataka Kobayashi
- Transfer targets A loan move for René Heinrich is in the works