The Shonan Bellmare Gazette
Squad3 Aug 2026
Yuto Suzuki signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yuto Suzuki commits to Shonan Bellmare for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Shonan Bellmare
Yuto Suzuki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Taishi Brandon Nozawa
Shonan Bellmare asked and Antwerp said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Shonan Bellmare
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sere Matsumura was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Shonan Bellmare and Hiroaki Okuno
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Shonan Bellmare, another week without a signature from Hiroaki Okuno.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Tomoya Fujii
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months and counting on Shusuke Ota
Still no offer on the table, and Shusuke Ota’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Shonan Bellmare are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Juri Kirchmayr is in the works
Shonan Bellmare have made the call to Grazer AK. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Transfer targets Shonan Bellmare ask about Masataka Kobayashi
- Transfer targets Shonan Bellmare ask about Nejc Elsnik
- The dugout The view from the dugout