Kaoru Ito

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Gamba Osaka
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Marked for Kaoru Ito

124 Edition

The Gamba Osaka Herald

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market11 Dec 2028

Kanji Okunuki asks to leave Gamba Osaka

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad11 Dec 2028

The season belongs to Asahi Uenaka

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Gamba Osaka have had the benefit of it.

Squad11 Dec 2028

Words at Gamba Osaka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Domingos Andrade 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.

Squad11 Dec 2028

Kaoru Ito 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.

Market11 Dec 2028

The Riku Handa story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Riku Handa signs something — a contract at Gamba Osaka or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

Felipe Cifuentes knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Felipe Cifuentes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Loan watch11 Dec 2028

Shumpei Naruse first choice at Albirex Niigata

33 starts and a season average of 6.78. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.

Loan watch11 Dec 2028

Shinya Nakano has made Urawa Reds’s shirt his own

32 starts now, an average of 6.79, and the team sheet at Urawa Reds has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.

Match11 Dec 2028

Continental football is in reach for Gamba Osaka

59 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

In brief

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117 Edition

The Gamba Osaka Herald

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout23 Oct 2028

Haruto Matsumoto: 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.” Gamba Osaka have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout23 Oct 2028

Shu Kurata frozen out at Gamba Osaka

This is not rotation. Shu Kurata has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Gamba Osaka is pretending otherwise.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Asahi Uenaka is carrying Gamba Osaka

14 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Words at Gamba Osaka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Domingos Andrade 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.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Kanji Okunuki runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad23 Oct 2028

A falling-out at Gamba Osaka

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

Match21 Oct 2028

Asahi Uenaka rescues a point for Gamba Osaka

It needed Asahi Uenaka to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Kashima Antlers, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout23 Oct 2028

Hotaru Tomiyasu on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Hotaru Tomiyasu after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Looking ahead23 Oct 2028

Gamba Osaka take on the side everybody is chasing

Avispa Fukuoka arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

82 Edition

The Gamba Osaka Herald

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets21 Feb 2028

No thanks: Takumi Tsuchiya rejects the move

Gamba Osaka had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Kashiwa Reysol, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets21 Feb 2028

Gamba Osaka make their move for Daisuke Yoshimitsu

$380.0K on the table at FC Tokyo. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad21 Feb 2028

A falling-out at Gamba Osaka

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

Boardroom21 Feb 2028

6 academy graduates step up at Gamba Osaka

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market21 Feb 2028

Gamba Osaka promote Takehiro Furuhashi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Takehiro Furuhashi 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.

Market21 Feb 2028

One of our own: Miki Mitoma joins the Gamba Osaka first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miki Mitoma is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market21 Feb 2028

Gamba Osaka promote Akira Miyoshi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Akira Miyoshi 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.

Market21 Feb 2028

One of our own: Kaoru Ito joins the Gamba Osaka first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kaoru Ito is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Transfer targets21 Feb 2028

A loan move for Kosei Suwama is in the works

Gamba Osaka have made the call to Yokohama F. Marinos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief