The Sagan Tosu Herald
Match1 Aug 2026
A hiding for Sagan Tosu
Beaten 2‑5 by Sanfrecce Hiroshima, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Jun Nishikawa takes the afternoon — 8.38
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jun Nishikawa provided it, and the 8.38 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Sagan Tosu make their move for Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa
$920.0K on the table at FC Tokyo. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kenta Nishizawa signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kenta Nishizawa and Sagan Tosu agree another 4 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Sagan Tosu and Sanfrecce Hiroshima in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kenta Nishizawa 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sagan Tosu
Koki Sakamoto and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
Jubilo Iwata join the queue for Yoshiki Narahara
Add another name to the list: Jubilo Iwata have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Yoshiki Narahara. The answer from Sagan Tosu has not changed — yet.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Hiromu Mitsumaru
“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
- Squad 200 appearances for Reiya Morishita
- Boardroom Nobody left the Sagan Tosu dressing room in a hurry
- Market Sagan Tosu and Hiromu Mitsumaru are talking past each other