The Gamba Osaka Herald
Squad3 Aug 2026
Shu Kurata: 23 seasons and counting
490 appearances across 23 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Gamba Osaka know exactly what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ryoya Yamashita runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Gamba Osaka turn down Urawa Reds for Shota Fukuoka
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market3 Aug 2026
Jun Ichimori wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Gamba Osaka hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Shota Fukuoka signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Shota Fukuoka and Gamba Osaka agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Gamba Osaka
Shota Fukuoka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ritsu Doan 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Gamba Osaka rebuffed over Matías Arezo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Penarol have kept their man, and Gamba Osaka go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Gamba Osaka find a way past Jubilo Iwata
Jubilo Iwata made Gamba Osaka work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Gamba Osaka and Shu Kurata
- The dugout A satisfied Shinji Minamino
- Market 49 months and counting on Deniz Hümmet