The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette
Market7 Sep 2026
Hayao Kawabe asks to leave Sanfrecce Hiroshima
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Shuto Nakano 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
Words at Sanfrecce Hiroshima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mutsuki Kato 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Kim Jusung
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kim Jusung, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Sanfrecce Hiroshima
11 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Shunki Higashi named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Shunki Higashi is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Taichi Yamasaki'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
When it matters, Marcos Junior 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Ryo Germain question follows Sanfrecce Hiroshima around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ryo Germain’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Yuki Nogami knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Avispa Fukuoka at home
- Market Taishi Matsumoto leaves on loan