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The Gamba Osaka Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match30 Sep 2026

Gamba Osaka out of the cup

Vissel Kobe ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Deniz Hümmet scores twice — 8.89

Two goals and a mark of 8.89 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

Gamba Osaka are taken apart by Vissel Kobe — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Shu Kurata, 37, rolls back the years — 7.84

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.84 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Ryoya Yamashita beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Gamba Osaka

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ryoya Yamashita was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match3 Oct 2026

Deniz Hümmet sends Gamba Osaka past Nagoya Grampus

It finished 3‑1, and it was Deniz Hümmet’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gamba Osaka.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Appearance number 400 for Shu Kurata

400 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages swallow 183% of the Gamba Osaka income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

In brief

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The Gamba Osaka Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Sep 2026

Not going: Taiki Watanabe stays at Gamba Osaka

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” RWDM had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market7 Sep 2026

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.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Gamba Osaka baulk at the price for Katsunori Ueebisu

Jubilo Iwata wanted more than $65.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Gamba Osaka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryoya Yamashita 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.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

The Gamba Osaka board find $6.0M for the manager

Money, not words, and it is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending $6.0M well is entirely his problem now.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Asahi Uenaka is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Asahi Uenaka has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Shuto Abe

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

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Shu Kurata has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Gamba Osaka 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

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