2023/27 Tsuyoshi Watanabe | Daniel Schmidt 2024/27 | Daisuke Yokota 2024/27 @ KAA Gent (BEL)

seolseol · Feb 14, 2024

_katsukun_ said: ↑

They have many injuries + sold 3 important attacking players in one transfer period…
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It shows

poyotaryo · Feb 22, 2024

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

seolseol · Feb 22, 2024

poyotaryo said: ↑

They failed to qualify against Maccabi Haifa in the Conference League playoffs.
Watanabe on the field, Schmidt on the bench.
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Their bad form shows
Dont know whay happend. They were rock solid

_katsukun_ · Feb 23, 2024

They rotate in goal : Roef for Europe, Schmidt in the league.

As for bad form :

Still 2 important players (incl captain & crucial MF metronome) injured and they won't be back soon.

Yesterday to make matters worse, the backup captain and metronome was suspended.

A promising player they bought for 7M Eur to replace the 3 attacking players transferred during the winter break is a 19yo kid from Sweden who still has to adjust and grow.

Daisuke Yokota, the other bit more mature new transfer who was good in his first games, suffered a knee injury a few weeks ago and is also out for a long time too.

They also had to miss 4 players because of Asian and Africa Cup in January.

They basically had to rebuild their entire team during the winter break with barely new players available. Hence the 6L 1W 2D in 2024.

seolseol · Feb 23, 2024

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