2023/27 T. Watanabe | D. Schmidt 2024/25 | D. Yokota 2024/27 | A. Ito 2024/27 @ KAA Gent (BEL)

It shows

 

They failed to qualify against Maccabi Haifa in the Conference League playoffs.
Watanabe on the field, Schmidt on the bench.

 

Their bad form shows
Dont know whay happend. They were rock solid

 

Guess that explains it. To bad. They were on their way to something big.

 

Done deal now. Can add him

 

Ito hoping to be ready Thursday.

And Watanabe is now captain

 

Great news !
I'd love to see how many japanese captains we've had in Europe.
From what I recall I saw Endo, Hasebe, Kawashima, Gotoku Sakai, Nagatomo (by default).

Who else? Someone remembers?

 

Gent classified to the Conference League. And Atsuki Ito made his debut.

 

Yokota to Kaiserslautern on loan?

 

Done deal

 

Watanabe scored against Chelsea in a 2-4 loss. Atsuki also played 90th minutes and for some phases of the game, Gent was very good into the game.

Watanabe should be a safe Member of the JNT, so much quality but its almost the same, like Furuhashi.

 

Glad he scored. Difficult game for them.
Yeah I agree, I said it a long time. But as with Furuhashi Moriyasu dont rate him.

 

Hope after this season, Watanabe joins Bundesliga together with Machida to get a better standing.

 

Assist from Watanabe against St. Truiden

 

Another great game by Watanabe with the winning assist in the dying seconds.

 

Scored again. Form of his life. Watanabe is soooo good.

 

Ito finally scored his first goal, assisted by Watanabe

 

Another win (3-0) in the CL, another start for Ito and Watanabe.

 

Watanabe was MOTM by Fotmob yesterday.

He played a outstanding season. Even better then the last ones. Need to move, he is soo good. His last 5 games were out of this world.

 

Schmidt went back home. Nagoya.

 

By the way Daisuke Yokota at Kaiserslautern played a great season. Especially the last 11 games (3 goals + 3 assists) he is so on fire and Kaiserslautern could be a runners up to the Bundesliga. He scored yesterday, to secure another win.
I was wondering why he goes into 2. Bundesliga when he was more or less a sure starter at a big club like Gent, and plays international. But when he continue to play like that, he goes even further.

And sad for Schmidt, he was close before to start a good solid career when his move to Ligue 1 was denied in the last seconds cause of the closing transfer window and then he never came back.

 

Yeah, I forgot that , when he was at his best, Ligue 1 was so close. But now back in Japan.. How things turn out.