Japanese Abroad 2009/10 [R] - Part II

Oh yeah, that guy

 

I think that Kagawa to Dortmund is pretty much official now

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100511-00000518-sanspo-socc

 

Yea its official

http://www.cerezo.co.jp/news_detail.asp?c_idx=10003355&contents_code=100100100

I can't wait to see him next season in the Bundesliga.

 

I'm going to go out on a limb and hope that this is just bullshit press.
If not... wtf Celtic?? Do they hate Mizuno over there or something ?

 

I'm new here, so this is probably discussed elsewhere, but it is simply BAFFLING to me that Kagawa is not on the WC team. Just crazy. The kid is playing so well right now, and now moving to one of the better teams in Germany. Did he sleep with the coach's wife, f*ck up at a NT game, or is he a giant locker room douchebag? This is like Mexico leaving behind J. Hernandez or something. Really odd...

 

Okada is a fool. That is all.

 

Japanese in Moscow. CSKA 4-1 Terek.
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Shinji Kagawa Signs with Borussia Dortmund of the Bundesliga.
http://www.sanspo.com/soccer/news/100511/sca1005111140000-n1.htm

Full transfer will be effective July 1st, 2010.

Yessss, finally another young lad going overseas... Any new updates of Yoshida Maya?

 

McClaren is the new manager of Wolfsburg

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=784936&sec=europe&cc=5901

I wonder how this will affect Hasebe's playing time.

 

Ironically, I bet if this had happened a month ago he'd have been an automatic for the WC... even w/o stepping on a field in Germany.

That is just Okada's [vacuum of] logic.

 

That sucks.

 

Matsui could go to Valenciennes.
http://www.mercato365.com/infos-clubs/valenciennes/article_415789_Valenciennes-La-piste-Matsui.shtml

Would be a good club for him. Not too big, the environment is friendly, the players and the coach are good. Decent midtable team whose main sponsor is Toyota. Konica Minolta had already made Saint Etienne buy him so the transfer is not just a speculation.

 

Schalke has made an offer for Uchida
http://www.sanspo.com/soccer/news/100513/sca1005130045000-n1.htm

I'd think the lure of Champions League will be enough to pull him away? (Schalke finished 2nd in the Bundesliga)

 

Is Rafinha going anywhere? If not, he's going to struggle for playing time.

 

Rafinha to Bayern I think, it should have already been that way last year but Schalke refused.

Anyway, Matsui just arrived in Japan and salute you :

And will never go to Valenciennes for god sake.

 

Uchida to Schalke soon already?!?!

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/soccer/news/2010/05/13/01.html
http://www.asahi.com/sports/update/0513/TKY201005120547.html

 

I don't think that this would be a good move for Uchida. I have no problem with Kagawa going because I think that he has the mentality to succeed even if he has to start on the bench, but Uchida does not have that kind of mentality.

I doubt that he has ever been in a position where playing time is not guaranteed. He wouldn't know how to cope with it.

 

Hasn't Uchida made it clear a million times that he has no intention of going abroad?

 

I'm sure they'll both learn to deal with whatever their future challenges in Europe holds. Becasue if they don't, they'll be back in Japan mighty quick.

These players are going overseas to find out if they have what it takes (skills, mentality, etc.) to succeed in Europe. There's no guarentee that Kagawa will succeed, and no guarentee that Uchida will fail. That's why it's exciting.

 

Looks like its pretty much done

http://www.nikkansports.com/soccer/news/f-sc-tp0-20100513-629090.html

I guess he really did want to go......

They much have offered him a lot of money to make him "change his mind"

 

Well there's really not a whole lot left for him to win in japan. The world cup I think may have made him consider the football outside the little fishbowl we call the j.league.

 

Not everyone shares your insulting, Troussier-like view of the J-League.

 

I guess it was money....

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100513-00000132-sph-socc