2016/21 Masaya Okugawa | 2014/19 Takumi Minamino @ FC Red Bull Salzburg (AUT)

RB Salzburg officially won the Austrian Bundesliga yesterday, and thus qualified to the playoff round of next season's Champions League.

One has to wonder if they are planning to bring another Japanese to the team next season, or if Okugawa will stay with them.

I could imagine some Japanese who have problems with their career in Europe last season playing for RB Salzburg to revive their careers at Europe, especially with the appeal of playing in the CL and the opportunity to get scouted by some clubs in European top 4 leagues.

Shibasaki, Muto, and Nakajima could all benefit from such move.

Even the likes of Nagatomo and Haraguchi could be options too.

 

What you mentioned is a well-known strategy of Salzburg, but they also were/are picking up some older players such as their former top scorer Soriano, and their current midfielder Junuzovic.

Nakajima can be sold to a bigger club in a bigger league, and this will serve RB Salzburg's purposes.

Shibasaki and Muto could be an investment too, but to a lesser extent.

While Nagatomo is a veteran they might need to help some of the younger players grow, while Haraguchi can be an older player, with almost no potential of being sold to bigger club in bigger league, but both can fall in the same category as Soriano and Junuzovic.

 

I know about the squads and their ages.

Both Muto and Harauchi had experiences playing in Germany, so communicating shall not be a problem, this is to show you that how much your rationale are flawed.

Anyhow, what I said is wishful thinking, no need for arguing too much about it, it is not like our conversation here will have an impact on which player Salzburg will sign.

Relax.

 

What you said has no added value, because what you said is already known by both of us, so why did you start this conversation to begin with?

To waste our time? To show that you are the "know-it-all" guy and others as ignorants?

This what I said in my first reply to you. Why did you keep on repeating and elaborating on the same idea, when the others already told you that they are already knew about it?

 

Relax... lol naopon seems pretty relaxed to me, his just presenting a point to your statement and what he says makes 100% sense in my opinion. What your saying would make absolutely no sense for a club like Salzburg and the way there club operates. Gotta learn to debate brother, that's what makes most of these football threads interesting, by expressing different opinions and not getting butthurt if someone presents a different argument or opposes your thinking lol. Seems like you need to relax, but just my opinion hey

 

Good to hear your opinion.

The point is that he is stating a point that I am well aware of and didn't deny.

If he is stating a different point of view, then its OK.

However, he is here prolonging the discussion with no whatsoever added value, just arguing for the sake of arguing. This is a total nonsense.

 

@dlsn3y the proper way to express such thing is by saying for example:

1- "I wonder if you have a look at... and noticed...".
Or:
2- "Did you have a look at... and noticed...".

This is how you converse with people in a polite and respectful debate.

The way he said it implied that the other person is ignorant and not well-informed.
The examples of rephrasing I suggested is the way people who know how to debate are using.

 

Well said.

 

Thank you.

To be honset, I like to see this forums live, as this and the rising sun news forums were the places I met and discussed with fellow Japanese football fans.

I still remember when I started a Yahoo group to discuss Japanese football in 2000 or 2001, during that times you can hardly find someone in your real-world commuinity or even someone in the virtual world who speaks English and have passion about Japanese football.

I also remember how I was excited when I first met a Japanese football fan from Japan through ICQ, who was a Kashima Antlers' fan, and we were discussing and talking about JNT, J.League, and Japanese players.
Ironically, during that time, people were using ICQ for dating, while I was using it as a window to communicate with people who shared the same passion with me.

This is why I am interested in keeping this form of platforms alive, as they were the main virtual gathering places for Japanese football fans from different parts of the world.

What I don't like is some younger people, especially people who were born in the 1990s and afterwards not paying any respect to older guys like me and Ken Matsushima (who I disagree with many of his opinions and analysis by the way) and many other oldies for example.
We might disagree in many points, its OK, but there are no need for younger dudes and newbies to behave in an impolite and derogatory way. @naopon and I don't mean that you are one of those younger dudes and newbiews.

I really like your contributions in general, and it is always refreshing to see your Golden Gate avatar in this forums.

 

Btw. would it be possible to move Okugawa first in the thread title now that Minamino is no longer at Salzburg?

 

@Dax do your job mate.

 

Okugawa scored the second goal for Salzburg as they are 1-2 up against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

 

@Dax kindly, remove Minamino's name from thread's title.

 

Starts!

 

Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, and Lokomotiv Moscow in the UCL.

 

Tough group. I expected them to invest in some good new players before CL but I guess not.

 

Losing big against Bayern , he started on the bench but came on in the 65th minute and scored after just one minute.

 

This Bayern team really play their matches like a FIFA video game. Always score absurd amount of goals.

 

Yes its ridiculous.