Ryuta Koike

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18 Edition

The Kashima Antlers Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match30 Nov 2026

Kashima Antlers are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 22 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market30 Nov 2026

Leo Ceara has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Kashima Antlers can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Home is on Aleksandar Cavric's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Kashima Antlers are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words at Kashima Antlers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Koki Machida 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Kashima Antlers

Yu Funabashi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

When it matters, Ryuta Koike plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

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7 Edition

The Kashima Antlers Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Sep 2026

Yuma Suzuki puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kashima Antlers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match12 Sep 2026

Kashima Antlers throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Vissel Kobe the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Kashima Antlers will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Koki Machida pops up at the right end — 7.91

7.91, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Kashima Antlers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Koki Machida was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match12 Sep 2026

Whatever happens, Kashima Antlers do not lose

6 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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Yuma Suzuki runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Akito Mukai 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 Kashima Antlers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match12 Sep 2026

Kashima Antlers share the spoils with Vissel Kobe

A 2‑2 draw with Vissel Kobe leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Kashima Antlers

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

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