You can't know the players without a program!

Even then, it might not help. Verdy released the name of the 35 players selected for the top squad. Only 13 of the 35 are returnees. Korean youth international Gang Jin Lee was not among the listed players (I'm not sure if he's gone or if Verdy is pulling an Urawa and stashing him somewhere). 3 players were picked up from the youth team, 1 player was a college signing, and 17 were either borrowed, reclamated, repossessed, or outright stolen from other squads. Oh yeah........one was pulled from the regional leagues.

Anyhow, here's the rundown (former squads in parenthesis)

GK -Hiroki Mizuhara, Satoshi Tokizawa, Yoshinari Takagi, Takaya Kurokawa (Shimizu S Pulse)

OUTLOOK: Takagi is the incumbent and will probably get the spot, however, don't be surprised to see Kurokawa get a fair amount of starts with the bloated schedule. Surprisingly, this was the position with the least amount of change

DF- Kenta Togawa, Kenichi Uemura, Masayuki Yanagisawa, Dedimar (Santo Andre), Naoki Mihara (Verdy Youth), Yugo Ichiyanagi (Sagan Tosu), Seitaro Tomisawa (Vegalta Sendai), Shigenori Hagimura (Albirex via Kyoto), Yukihiro Aoba (Ventforet Kofu), Taisei Fujita (FC Tokyo), Takaki Shigemitsu (college)

OUTLOOK: This one is hard to call...............Dedimar is a lock to play in the back 3 but the other two slots are wide open. Yanagisawa, Togawa, and Uemura are the only returners from a backfield that was a complete joke. Tomisawa is a strong possibility as well as Hagimura.
That's who I'd start......Tomisawa, Hagimura, and Dedimar

MF-Kenta Tsurumaki (Verdy Youth), Hideki Nagai (FC Ryukyu), Tomo Sugiwara (Vissel Kobe), Anailson (San Caetano), Nozomi Hiroyama (Cerezo Osaka), Koji Maatsura (Vegalta Sendai), Masahiro Ohashi (Yokohama FM), Shin Kanazawa (Omiya), Jun Tamano, Masatomo Kuba, Shingo Nejime, Yuhei Ono

OUTLOOK: Decimated by the vultures of J1 (no pun intended), this will be the position that nobody will recognize. Anailson is a lock for opening day, Nagai and Sugiwara will probably be resuscitated to give the fans that natsukashii feeling. If they stick with a 3-5-2, it might be Ono at the tip of the spear. Ahh, hell, let's go with a 3-4-3 and call it Anailson, Sugiwara, Nagai, and Ohashi

FW-Harutaka Ono (Kashiwa), Basilio (Santos), Ryosuke Kijima (Oita), Kazuki Hiramoto, Kazunori Iio (Kawasaki Frontale), Takayuki Morimoto, Kohei Kiyama (Verdy Youth)

OUTLOOK: Even with the loss of Washington and Gil, this is the strongest position on the squad. Ono, Basilio, and Hiramoto will get the early season call with Morimoto serving as a super sub. Not alot of depth in the front 3, but there is some talent.

This is all subject to change after Guam though. It's a strong possibility that one or more of the young guns will step up and claim a spot. the guys that aren't playing will probably form an ACL squad.