The Sagan Tosu Herald
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Sagan Tosu
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sagan Tosu are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kenta Nishizawa 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 Sagan Tosu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Ryo Shiohama
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ryo Shiohama 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ryota Izumori 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Jun Nishikawa at his very best
Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sagan Tosu.
In brief
- Match Sagan Tosu and Kashima Antlers take a point apiece
- Market Sagan Tosu buy the years ahead of Junya Hasebe
- Squad André Dias dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings Eitaro Matsuda changes it off the bench