Hiroki Maeda

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Marked for Hiroki Maeda

116 Edition

The Gamba Osaka Herald

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Oct 2028

Shinya Nakano damages knee ligaments — 49 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 49 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Taiga Hata 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.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Gamba Osaka count the cost of losing Hiroki Maeda

21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Eli Adams 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 Gamba Osaka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Riku Handa has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Gamba Osaka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Tokuma Suzuki knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gamba Osaka, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market16 Oct 2028

Ryoya Yamashita linked with a move away

The name of Ryoya Yamashita keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Gamba Osaka say nothing, which says plenty.

Looking ahead16 Oct 2028

Ikuma Sekigawa goes back to face Kashima Antlers

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ikuma Sekigawa’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Gamba Osaka needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market16 Oct 2028

Gamba Osaka put Ritsu Doan up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ritsu Doan may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

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112 Edition

The Gamba Osaka Herald

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match16 Sep 2028

Gamba Osaka make home a hard place to visit

16 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Words exchanged at Gamba Osaka

Yutaka Michiwaki 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.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Ryoya Yamashita 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.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Ritsu Doan is carrying Gamba Osaka

13 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The terraces18 Sep 2028

Gamba Osaka supporters have found a favourite in Yutaka Michiwaki

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Yutaka Michiwaki has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Gamba Osaka lose Hiroki Maeda

53 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match16 Sep 2028

Yutaka Michiwaki the difference as Gamba Osaka beat Vegalta Sendai

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yutaka Michiwaki. 1‑0 against Vegalta Sendai, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

No hiding place for Tokuma Suzuki

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tokuma Suzuki, and the manager let it.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

A promise honoured at Gamba Osaka

Something was said to Sota Miura and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

92 Edition

The Gamba Osaka Herald

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad1 May 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Genta Miura

17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gamba Osaka lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings1 May 2028

Gaku Nawata, 21, steals the show — 7.85

Marked 7.85 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match29 Apr 2028

Gamba Osaka make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Gamba Osaka have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad1 May 2028

A falling-out at Gamba Osaka

Ritsu Doan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad1 May 2028

Words at Gamba Osaka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryoya Yamashita 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.

The terraces1 May 2028

The crowd has taken to Gaku Nawata

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match29 Apr 2028

Gamba Osaka find a way past FC Tokyo

FC Tokyo made Gamba Osaka work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad1 May 2028

Hiroki Maeda stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Hiroki Maeda and Gamba Osaka agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout1 May 2028

A promise honoured at Gamba Osaka

Something was said to Riku Handa and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief