Daichi Hayashi

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Gamba Osaka
9 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Daichi Hayashi

16 Edition

The Gamba Osaka Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Philipp Max says Gamba Osaka went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Gamba Osaka

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Hiroki Noda

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Gamba Osaka Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Daichi Hayashi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gamba Osaka can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Philipp Max 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.

Squad

Philipp Max slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Philipp Max is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Gamba Osaka

6 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Shinya Nakano

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Gamba Osaka have started building around Riku Handa

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

In brief