The Yokohama F. Marinos Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
A career in one shirt: Takuya Kida
16 seasons and 304 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Sanfrecce Hiroshima tell Yokohama F. Marinos: Ryo Germain is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Aug 2026
Urawa Reds join the queue for Ren Kato
Add another name to the list: Urawa Reds have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ren Kato. The answer from Yokohama F. Marinos has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rubén Blanco signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rubén Blanco and Yokohama F. Marinos agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Riku Yamane 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 Yokohama F. Marinos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Thomas Jok Deng wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Yokohama F. Marinos know it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Yokohama F. Marinos come up short against Sagan Tosu
Sagan Tosu left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
Yokohama F. Marinos may not be able to give Jeisson Quinones what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jeisson Quinones wants continental football; whether Yokohama F. Marinos can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Akira Furuhashi left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Transfer targets Yokohama F. Marinos ask about Hiroto Noda
- Market No place for Taiki Watanabe in the plan
- Market Talks stall between Yokohama F. Marinos and Jordy Croux