Our Japanese Player..

newyddion

newyddion

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we don’t seem to have one?

is it just me or does every team seem to have one really good Japanese player in their squad now?

is this a thing now?

has anyone else noticed this?

I’ve noticed trends before.. but nothing quite like this?

why don’t we have our own Japanese wizard?
 
BigAl76 said:
I've noticed this also and I've long since thought that it may well be a marketing thing. Selling shirts to the Asian market. It's a big fan base there to tap in to.
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it just seems to be a new trend.

Keiron Scott mentioned about how he seems to favour Australian and Americans.. or seems to uncover gems from there.

Australia had a huge overhaul of their approach to youth sports.. so their athletes have improved as a result. MLS has been growing in popularity and we’re seeing some great players from that neck of the woods as a result.

There seems to be a market increase in ROI players in recent years.. I’m assuming that’s due to the investment in coaches and coaching levels over there.

I’ve notice the Japanese national game improving quite a lot.. I wonder if the infrastructure has changed over there in recent years?

I remember a surge in popularity of Uruguan players at one point.. a few years ago now. Their national team was rather so highly.. but their players were often overlooked in favour of the more fashionable Brazilians or even Argentinians.

Japan.. the new hotbed of footballing talent?

There’s often a financial element attached to these trends. I.e., Uruguayans being the best value South Americans, ROU tge best value British players.. the Dutch bring a cost effective alternative to the Spanish.

Japan along with Australia and the USA could be untapped markets for European clubs.. and we’re a decent level.. perhaps more importantly a potential strppingvsyinecyo the prem.
 
JimboJenkins said:
With regards to East Asia, we were well ahead of the curve years ago when we signed the mighty Lion King of South Korea, Lee Dong-Gook
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I lived in south Korea for 4 years. He's a big star over there, don't know if it's still going but he had a reality TV show then. Something along the lines of The Osbournes
 
BigAl76 said:
I've noticed this also and I've long since thought that it may well be a marketing thing. Selling shirts to the Asian market. It's a big fan base there to tap in to.
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The University of Teesside are very active recruiting students from Hong Kong. They have (or had) a full time member of staff, based there or travelling between. Her parents used to own the Chinese on the corner of Roman/Oxford Rd and she used to regularly help in there behind the counter.

I wonder if the club have looked at potential exposure and links that might further scouting.

The sign behind the counter used to say “No chip without main meal, however”, and would suggest no cheap lunch, however…
 
From what I’ve seen there’s a couple of decent Japanese players at Celtic. I was in Glasgow in the summer and the shirts with the name and number in Japanese looked to be very popular with the kids.
 
I was hoping we would be in for Ao Tanaka. I suspect Morris was a better option but I would have loved Hackney, Morris, Tanaka and Howson/Barlaser as our midfield unit.
 
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