Comings, Goings, and Rumors

Well, more goings than comings.........Here are the official goners

Washington----off to Urawa
Gil---back to Brazil
Atsushi Yoneyama---Kawasaki Frontale
Tadamichi Machida---Kawasaki Frontale

and the official comers

Kazunori Iio---from Frontale
Yugo Ichiyanagi---a 20 year old defender from Sagan Tosu who played in 15 games and had a player rating of 5.69 in Soccer magazine Japan.

Here are the rumors-------goodbye :( ????? (all links in Japanese)

MF Yoshiyuki Kobayashi to Omiya Ardija (possibly a reunion with Naoto Sakurai?)
www.saitama-np.co.jp/news01/04/04a.htm (originally found on GO! GO! Omiya Ardija)

Wasn't an overwhelming force for Verdy last year and his upside is limited. Probably better suited as a role player on a J1 club.

MF Daigo Kobayashi to Kyoto Purple Sanga
http://osaka.nikkansports.com/osc/p-ot-tp3-060104-0015.html (originally found on Masa-net)

If this goes through, it's a killer. Daigo is a promising young MF who will only get better. He should have a good year if he's teamed up with Alemao and Paulinho but this would be a huge loss for Verdy

MF/DF Takahito Soma to Urawa Reds

This one was posted yesterday but another site http://reds.boy.jp/ra/index.html#itv also has posted that it's a done deal. What Urawa wants, Urawa gets. It's a killer.

And one more rumor, found this buried in the Soma story.........it looks like Ramos is going after a striker from Sao Caetano named Anailson. I can't find any info on the guy but here is the article
www.sponichi.co.jp/soccer/news/2006/01/03/10.html

I'm also speculating that Toda and Yamada will leave the team for J1 squads pretty soon.....no info yet, just a feeling. I imagine that next years squad is going to be very, very young. I'm not so concerned about purging the veterans so much and it was expected that Washington wouldn't stay but the possible losses of Soma and Daigo are killers. Those are two talents you can build a team around.