Mateus Castro

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Nagoya Grampus
7 Sep 2026
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Marked for Mateus Castro

5 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match26 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus bow out of the cup

Kashima Antlers go through and Nagoya Grampus go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Yohei Takeda keeps Nagoya Grampus in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Kensuke Nagai, 37, rolls back the years — 8.18

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.18 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Too dear: Nagoya Grampus walk away from Tomoya Inukai

$22.0K was the most the club would pay and Kashiwa Reysol were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Nagoya Grampus

Teruki Hara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match29 Aug 2026

Mateus Castro sends Nagoya Grampus past Vissel Kobe

It finished 2‑1, and it was Mateus Castro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nagoya Grampus.

Market31 Aug 2026

Queens Park Rangers join the queue for Alex Kouto Horio Pisano

Add another name to the list: Queens Park Rangers have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alex Kouto Horio Pisano. The answer from Nagoya Grampus has not changed — yet.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Yuya Yamagishi 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Mateus Castro runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market10 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus say no — this time

The offer from Tondela for Mateus Castro was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus make their move for Yotaro Nakajima

$940.0K on the table at Sanfrecce Hiroshima. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus go back to the board over Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $246.8K — a club that wants Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa enough to be asked twice.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Kensuke Nagai beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Nagoya Grampus

Sho Inagaki 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Matías Arezo

Nagoya Grampus asked and Penarol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market10 Aug 2026

Gaku Ueda steps up from the Nagoya Grampus academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gaku Ueda has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus promote Shoya Suzuki from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Shoya Suzuki has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Sho Furuhashi joins the Nagoya Grampus first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sho Furuhashi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

1 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market3 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus say no — this time

The offer from FC Tokyo for Yuya Yamagishi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Yohei Takeda has been here 10 seasons

123 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Mateus Castro 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 Nagoya Grampus can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus rebuffed over Sebastián Ferreira

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olimpia have kept their man, and Nagoya Grampus go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sho Inagaki stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sho Inagaki and Nagoya Grampus agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sho Inagaki 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 Nagoya Grampus this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Nagoya Grampus

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

Match1 Aug 2026

Shonan Bellmare take the points off Nagoya Grampus

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market3 Aug 2026

Alex Kouto Horio Pisano attracts admirers

The name of Alex Kouto Horio Pisano has come up in conversations Nagoya Grampus were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief