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The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

Sébastien Haller breaks a bone — 53 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match19 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima bow out of the cup

FC Tokyo go through and Sanfrecce Hiroshima go home, 4‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match19 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with FC Tokyo the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Sanfrecce Hiroshima will enjoy reviewing.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Jeong Min Ki is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Jeong Min Ki: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Tsukasa Morishima scores twice — 8.07

Two goals and a mark of 8.07 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market24 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima sell Keisuke Osako for $10.7M

Keisuke Osako has left for Manchester United in a $10.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market24 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima turn down Lommel for Shunki Higashi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima sell a favourite for $10.7M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Keisuke Osako was one of the reasons people came, and $10.7M does not replace that by itself.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Vintage Marcos Junior — 8.13

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.13, and nobody on the pitch better.

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The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Aug 2026

60 days out for Sébastien Haller after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sanfrecce Hiroshima will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market17 Aug 2026

Keisuke Osako agrees terms with Manchester United

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sanfrecce Hiroshima people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market17 Aug 2026

Urawa Reds come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sanfrecce Hiroshima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market17 Aug 2026

Akito Suzuki turns Central Coast Mariners down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Ammar Ramadan

Sanfrecce Hiroshima asked and DAC Dunajska Streda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Yuta Nakano turns down Sanfrecce Hiroshima

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima baulk at the price for Ryota Oshima

Kawasaki Frontale wanted more than $68.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Mutsuki Kato 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Taichi Yamasaki goes

Yokohama F. Marinos paid $110.0K and Sanfrecce Hiroshima took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

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The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad10 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Sébastien Haller out for 67 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sanfrecce Hiroshima will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima baulk at the price for Ryotaro Meshino

Gamba Osaka wanted more than $2.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima make their move for Taiki Watanabe

$1.4M on the table at Yokohama F. Marinos. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market10 Aug 2026

Takuma Asano 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 Sanfrecce Hiroshima hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima go back to the board over Ryota Oshima

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $72.3K — a club that wants Ryota Oshima enough to be asked twice.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Tsukasa Shiotani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima bid $68.0K for Ryota Oshima

The offer went to Kawasaki Frontale this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Kein Sato

Sanfrecce Hiroshima asked and FC Tokyo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match8 Aug 2026

Sanfrecce Hiroshima find a way past Sagan Tosu

Sagan Tosu made Sanfrecce Hiroshima work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

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The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match1 Aug 2026

No mercy from Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Ventforet Kofu will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Sanfrecce Hiroshima were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ryo Germain takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sho Sasaki has been here 11 seasons

474 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Brisbane Roar come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sanfrecce Hiroshima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Sanfrecce Hiroshima — 7.83

1 for Hayato Araki, marked 7.83, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market3 Aug 2026

Keisuke Osako wants more than Sanfrecce Hiroshima are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Keisuke Osako signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Keisuke Osako and Sanfrecce Hiroshima agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Takuma Asano was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match1 Aug 2026

Ryo Germain among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Ryo Germain on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Ventforet Kofu.

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