The Kashima Antlers Sentinel
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 The request is on a desk at Kashima Antlers, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Rikuto Hirose beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Kashima Antlers against Nagoya Grampus
1‑2 to Nagoya Grampus, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kashima Antlers are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Nagatomo Furuhashi to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Yuma Suzuki gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Yuma Suzuki is on it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Koki Anzai
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Naomichi Ueda story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Naomichi Ueda signs something — a contract at Kashima Antlers or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Elber does not fit this one
- Player ratings The afternoon ran through Yuki Kakita
- Squad The shirt is Kento Misao’s