Great report! Watched a few of his games since he has been linked and the talent is clear - very fun defender too. I feel like he's frustratingly close to being so good. You watch him for 20 minutes and think he's the real deal with his composure, disguised passes, variety of passes, anticipation, agility and carries and then suddenly he's standing 5 yards behind his defensive line for no reason or completely misjudging the flight of a ball so much he has to do a complete 180 turn. We have had a lot of success signing players from J1 League but all of the defensively minded ones have struggled with the physicality which would be an added worry - Yuki Kobayashi's aerial success rate dropped something like 40% from J1>SPFL.
Apparently we want to send him out on loan if we sign him. I hope it would be within Europe. Sint-Truidense seems perfect if they'd be interested given their history of Japanese players, 3 at the back system and vacancy at LCB he could potentially fit right in to.
Great report! Watched a few of his games since he has been linked and the talent is clear - very fun defender too. I feel like he's frustratingly close to being so good. You watch him for 20 minutes and think he's the real deal with his composure, disguised passes, variety of passes, anticipation, agility and carries and then suddenly he's standing 5 yards behind his defensive line for no reason or completely misjudging the flight of a ball so much he has to do a complete 180 turn. We have had a lot of success signing players from J1 League but all of the defensively minded ones have struggled with the physicality which would be an added worry - Yuki Kobayashi's aerial success rate dropped something like 40% from J1>SPFL.
Apparently we want to send him out on loan if we sign him. I hope it would be within Europe. Sint-Truidense seems perfect if they'd be interested given their history of Japanese players, 3 at the back system and vacancy at LCB he could potentially fit right in to.