The Jubilo Iwata Chronicle
Market30 Jul 2035
Ippei Takahashi agrees terms with Albirex Niigata
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Jubilo Iwata people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market30 Jul 2035
Junya Ueda hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Jubilo Iwata can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2035
Fee done, terms next for Ryusei Sato
Jubilo Iwata and Avispa Fukuoka have settled on $88.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market30 Jul 2035
Eyes on Junya Ueda again
The phone has started ringing about Junya Ueda again, and this time the name on the line is Vissel Kobe. Jubilo Iwata are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match28 Jul 2035
Whatever happens, Jubilo Iwata do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Bruno Centeno 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 Jubilo Iwata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Jul 2035
Yutaro Oda runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Dylan Demuynck 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 targets30 Jul 2035
Door shut on Koki Saito
Jubilo Iwata asked and Gamba Osaka said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Market No place for Bruno Centeno in the plan
- Squad Junya Ito signs a new deal
- Transfer targets Jubilo Iwata try to borrow Sergio Rodelas