The Sagan Tosu Herald
The terraces22 Feb 2027
Supporters organise against the Sagan Tosu board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match20 Feb 2027
13 matches without a win for Sagan Tosu
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Sagan Tosu are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The knee: Yuta Imazu out for 81 days
81 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sagan Tosu lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Tatsuya Tabira: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sagan Tosu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market22 Feb 2027
Kyosuke Kamiyama 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 The request is on a desk at Sagan Tosu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Feb 2027
6 saves: Ryota Izumori was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Door shut on Kyota Tokiwa
Sagan Tosu asked and FC Tokyo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Sagan Tosu
Kenta Nishizawa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Sagan Tosu
3 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.
In brief
- Match Sagan Tosu come up short against Gamba Osaka
- Market One of our own: Shinji Nakata joins the Sagan Tosu first team
- Market Akira Doan steps up from the Sagan Tosu academy