The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Derik Lacerda turns Karlsruher SC down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Both of them Erison's — 8.49
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.49, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kawasaki Frontale bid $2.2M for Ryotaro Meshino
The offer went to Gamba Osaka this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Kein Sato
Kawasaki Frontale 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Yuki Yamamoto attracts admirers
The name of Yuki Yamamoto has come up in conversations Kawasaki Frontale were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Kawasaki Frontale go back to the board over Ryotaro Meshino
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.3M — a club that wants Ryotaro Meshino enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Kawasaki Frontale
Yasuto Wakizaka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
Kawasaki Frontale get the job done against Yokohama F. Marinos
A 2‑0 win over Yokohama F. Marinos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Miki Honda joins the Kawasaki Frontale first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miki Honda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Hotaru Suzuki steps up from the Kawasaki Frontale academy
- Squad 7 new faces, and Kawasaki Frontale are still learning each other
- The dugout Nagatomo Sakai has his say