The Yokohama F. Marinos Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
15 seasons of Takuya Kida
277 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Yokohama F. Marinos know what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
Riku Yamane wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Yokohama F. Marinos hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rubén Blanco signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rubén Blanco and Yokohama F. Marinos agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Yokohama F. Marinos
Dean David 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rubén Blanco 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Rubén Blanco told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Rubén Blanco has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Yokohama F. Marinos.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Riku Yamane
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market3 Aug 2026
FC Tokyo join the queue for Kosei Suwama
Add another name to the list: FC Tokyo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kosei Suwama. The answer from Yokohama F. Marinos has not changed — yet.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Riku Yamane
A mark of 7.11, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Yokohama F. Marinos and Jordy Croux
- Match Yokohama F. Marinos and Kawasaki Frontale cancel each other out
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Ryo Miyaichi