The Vissel Kobe Gazette
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Window shuts: 4 in, 5 out at Vissel Kobe
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Vissel Kobe
Yoshinori Muto 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Home is on Jean Patric's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Vissel Kobe are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Daiya Maekawa
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daiya Maekawa, and the manager let it.
Market1 Mar 2027
Vissel Kobe promote Miki Ueda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miki Ueda 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
One of our own: Yosuke Tanaka joins the Vissel Kobe first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yosuke Tanaka is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match27 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for Vissel Kobe against Kashiwa Reysol
0‑1 to Kashiwa Reysol, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Yuta Goke beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Maya Nakamura signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maya Nakamura commits to Vissel Kobe for another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout Daiki Hasebe faces the questions
- Squad A step back for Takahiro Ohgihara at Vissel Kobe
- Market The Yosuke Ideguchi story refuses to die