Takuya Uchida

Central Defender - Nagoya Grampus
24 Oct 2026
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12 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match17 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Nagoya Grampus

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad19 Oct 2026

53 days out for Ryosuke Yamanaka after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nagoya Grampus will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match17 Oct 2026

Nagoya Grampus cannot find the net

6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Tsuyoshi Kodama: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nagoya Grampus have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Yuya Yamagishi 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ryuji Izumi 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.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Yudai Kimura was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Nagoya Grampus are still strangers to each other

5 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.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Teruki Hara takes the honours

Marked 7.27 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Nagoya Grampus had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

60 days out for Ryosuke Yamanaka after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nagoya Grampus will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Nagoya Grampus

Yuya Yamagishi 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Teruki Hara 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Marcus Vinicius wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Nagoya Grampus can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Marcus Vinicius 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.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Haruya Fujii's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Sho Inagaki goes back to face Ventforet Kofu

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Sho Inagaki’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Nagoya Grampus needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Masahito Ono has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nagoya Grampus will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market12 Oct 2026

Yudai Kimura linked with a move away

The name of Yudai Kimura keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nagoya Grampus say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

6 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ryosuke Yamanaka breaks a bone — 102 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad7 Sep 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Nagoya Grampus

Teruki Hara 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Marcus Vinicius at Nagoya Grampus

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Takuya Uchida

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Takuya Uchida, and the manager let it.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Yudai Kimura's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Yota Sato knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yota Sato trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

When it matters, Yohei Takeda 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.

Looking ahead7 Sep 2026

A reunion for Yota Sato

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Urawa Reds in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

1 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

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.

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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus rebuffed over Kashif Bangnagande

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

Match1 Aug 2026

Shonan Bellmare take the points off Nagoya Grampus

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nagoya Grampus and Sho Inagaki are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Takefusa Kubo faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Takefusa Kubo after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief