Official 2016 J. League Transfers and Rumors thread

Calvin Jong-a-Ping released by S-Pulse.

 

Akihiro Sato (the goalie), Motoyama and Davi all were released by Antlers. Kashima wants Tosu keeper Hayashi.

 

Motoyama could have been on sight, but Davi?

 

is not the same player after injury. antlers needs a better striker.

 

Leandro, Danilson and Novakovic all gone. Interesting.

Leandro has been pretty much injured his entire spell at Nagoya, so its sad to see him not get another chance next season. Danilson haven't really developed much in the last few years, and could be nice with some new blood in their midfield. Novakovic was way too old when they signed him anyway, so that's not much of a loss I think.

 

He only started 4 games since his return to injury, and personally I think it is way too soon to throw him overboard. With a full pre-season under his belt he could have been a hit again next season, cause he should still have 2-3 good years left in him.

But I agree that they need new strikers anyway. Akasaki made some decent development this season, but he's not a player I would rely on for shooting Kashima to any glory, atleast not yet. Using Kanazaki as a FW is not optimal either, but still, there were only 3-4 teams in the league that scored more goals than Kashima this season so it can't be that bad.

Would be awesome to see Davi back where things started at Consadole, as with him they would be a real contender for direct promotion next season.

 

Davi is wanted by Ardija. Sapporo is set to make a big mistake, they want to release Nazarit. Antlers still have a Dinei as centre-forward. Let's see when he will recover after injury. If this is true. He should be back soon to the training. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dinei/profil/spieler/55453

 

Akasaki going to be in the starting eleven. Maybe Dinei and Yuma Suzuki as back-ups.

 

I forgot Suzuki Yuma. I like him. Can have a nice future.

A lot of decent players released by your team, basse. The first two and the last two.

OFFICIAL | Consadole Sapporo released Shunsuke Maeda, Hiroyuki Furuta, Takuro Kikuoka, Jun Sonoda, Nildo, and Cristian Nazarito. #jtransfer

— yosuke (@maimaidenden) November 27, 2015

 

I'll mostly miss Furuta, but he's not really lived up to his potential I think, and perhaps he need a new environment to get his career back on track.

Maeda and Kikuoka were creative players, but not really any big losses I think as we had better players than both of them anyway.

Nazarit had an amazing start to his Consadole-career, but something happened and he was left out of hte squad completely for several months. As far as I remember he was not injured, so might have been some off-the-pitch stuff? A great player at his best, but we still got Uchimura and Tokura, and will probably sign a new foreign FW too.

Sonoda and Nildo will not be missed at all.

 

2014 World Cup player Inoha released by Jubilo. Seems he will follow the Iwamasa's way. Is wanted in Thailand. One season there and back in home land.

 

By the way,nobody mentioned that Usami is very close to Stuttgart move when we can trust the media ?

http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/vereine/2015-16/1/tm-news--11017-8760-.html

Edit: Today I read, that Hannover want to check in the race, would be ways better then Stuttgart cause Hannover has a bad season this year yes, but they never get down to second league and they defitineley are willing to change this situation. They have not less money and have ambitious.

http://www.fussballinfo.net/2015/12...shi-usami-und-andraz-sporar-als-alternativen/

 

You were released by Sagamihara.

 

and starting new club in Okinawa prefecture!

 

And some more info on the coaches.

It seems like Tatsuma (or 'daruma' like some like to read his name) Yoshida will be the coach of Albirex next season. Reported by Nikkan and Niigata Nippo

http://www.nikkansports.com/soccer/news/1573422.html
http://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/albirex/soccer/20151201220650.html

It was reported earlier that he had two offers - one from Niigata and other from Shonan. But coach Cho will remain on his post for the next season. There were lots of rumours about which team he'll chose for the next season with most probable being Kyoto Sanaga (rumoured to pay twice the salary he got in Shonan) and others were Niigata, Cerezo and FC Tokyo

http://www.bellmare.co.jp/136302

In FC Tokyo there are rumours that the next couach could be Jofuku (again)

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20151201-00000013-jij-spo

Milos Russ is back to Yokohama FC after he resigned in September (due to bad results and his health issues)

http://www.yokohamafc.com/2015/12/01/2016シーズン監督にミロシュ-ルス氏就任のお知らせ/

And Kyodo News reported that Magath could be Sagan's next coach...

http://www.47news.jp/FN/201512/FN2015120101002188.html

Not much on the players lately. No big moves so far (but it should start soon). The only bigger move would be Komai from Sanga coming to Reds which should be announced soon.

 

and to note that the excellent South Korean coach of Bellmare will stay with them. They announced that today. He was linked with a lot of clubs including Cerezo, Sanga or Albirex.

 

Felix Magath to Sagan? Wtf

 

Yes and it's almost done.

 

http://zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20151202-00010023-footballc-socc

 

Felix Magath: der Deutsche Yoon Jung-Hwan

Usami <-> Stuttgart is kinda old news now. Japanese media interviewed Guido Buchwald at a Gamba match and he made no effort to hide that VfB is trying to sign him.