The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel
Squad18 Dec 2028
A falling-out at Nagoya Grampus
Yudai Kimura and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Dec 2028
A row about effort at Nagoya Grampus
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Teruki Hara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
Akinari Kawazura gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market18 Dec 2028
The Mateus Castro talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nagoya Grampus know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
Mark Isozaki 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 Mark Isozaki trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market18 Dec 2028
The clock does Yuya Yamagishi’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Nagoya Grampus could ask drops and the wages Yuya Yamagishi can ask rise.
Squad18 Dec 2028
A wage question at Nagoya Grampus
Marcus Vinicius has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
The manager makes Kengo Nagai a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Nagoya Grampus. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
KennedyEgbus Mikuni keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: KennedyEgbus Mikuni plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
In brief
- Match A season winding down at Nagoya Grampus
- Squad Kaoru Ueda is fit again