Nikkan Sports had an article today saying Daigo Kobayashi would like to become a member of the Ardija. The Ardija would like Daigo. Hmm.......getting the picture yet? The other Kobayashi has yet to decide on the Ardija offer.
Now would probably be helpful to create a roadmap of what happened since the last days of J1
The fearless 15 for the Oita match
GK Takagi (Now in a battle with S-Pulse rental Takaya Kurokawa.....will probably see time with the extra J2 matches and ACL scrums)
DF Hayashi (Career Verdian.......might be one of the few vets to survive the purge)
DF Yamada(Still desired by other J1 squads and a decent talent. 80/20 says he's gone. He was the face of the team during the Emperors Cup last year.)
DF Yoneyama (Gone to Kawasaki Frontale. Possibly replaced by Yugo Ichiyanagi or one of the bench players)
DF Yanagisawa (Relatively young DF. His job to lose for now)
MF Toda (Gone on Loan to Sanfrecce. Ono from Kashiwa might fill the void)
MF Hirano (Career J1 journeyman. I don't think he'll stay but he might. Maybe back to Nagoya? Still has something left in the tank.)
MF Soma (Off to Urawa for recognition and riches.)
MF DAIGO (Off to Omiya? It looks more and more likely)
FW Washington (Taking over for Maric in Urawa)
FW Gil (Back to Brazil)
And the Bench GK Mizuhara (Now 3rd on the depth chart?), DF Uemura (Could compete for a starter spot), MF Ono (could compete for one of the numerous vacancies coming soon, only got into one game last year) , MF Tamano (Young Mid who saw some time last year. He could grab a spot), andFW Machida (Gone to Kawasaki Frontale).
As of now, Verdy only has 2 forwards who saw any time in a J-league game (First or second division). Ramos is pursuing three Brazilians (Who I'm trying to get info on. Anailson from Sao Caetano and two others.......one with former links to Jubilo, possibly).
Things are getting ugly in Ajinomoto.
No comments:
Post a Comment