The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Nagoya Grampus
Sho Inagaki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Nagoya Grampus training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Takuto Oshima 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Kawasaki Frontale take the points off Nagoya Grampus
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Takuya Uchida signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Takuya Uchida and Nagoya Grampus agree another 3 years.
The dugout12 Oct 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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Keisuke Soma to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Yudai Kimura left out for tactical reasons at Nagoya Grampus
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Sho Inagaki has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Sho Inagaki has written the date down.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Katsuhiro Nakayama has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Nagoya Grampus that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Shuhei Tokumoto knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nagoya Grampus, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Player ratings Tomoya Koyamatsu runs at them all day
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Mateus Castro
- Player ratings The whistle followed Haruya Fujii around