The Urawa Reds Gazette
Squad19 Jan 2032
Takuto Oshima out for 17 days
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Takuto Oshima, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Jan 2032
Tempers go at Urawa Reds
Shu Morooka was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Jan 2032
Tomoya Ando 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.
Transfer targets19 Jan 2032
Door shut on Ramiro Macagno
Urawa Reds asked and Levadiakos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jan 2032
Hiroki Ueda signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hiroki Ueda and Urawa Reds agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets19 Jan 2032
A loan move for Seif Taha is in the works
Urawa Reds have made the call to Kashiwa Reysol. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout19 Jan 2032
Yosuke Ideguchi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Urawa Reds 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 dugout19 Jan 2032
The manager makes an example of Keisuke Kasai
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market19 Jan 2032
No place for Hiroki Noda in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Hiroki Noda has his answer from Urawa Reds; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Market Urawa Reds bring in an old head
- Market The Tomoya Ando talk will not go away
- The dugout Samuel Gustafson knocks on the manager’s door