Shunsuke Nakamura is coming home

By: 21 | October 27th, 2008

I had been waiting on this one for a bit but after confirming, the deal to bring Blue Samurai Shunsuke Nakamura of home to play for Yokohama F. Marinos is said to be “done.”

Shunsuke started his professional career Yokohama Marinos in 1997 (upon the 1999 merger with Yokohama Flügels added the “F” prefix to their name) before moving to Reggina in Serie A and eventually to Celtic in the summer of 2005. This return home would be a perfect closing note to his career, satisfy many of his personal goals within his family that he has been anxious to deal with as well as be a tremendous boost to Nissan-owned Yokohama. The terms of the deal are said to involve a transfer in the range of €6.5.

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• Matt |  October 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

  
  
  

  For what it is worth, Celtic’s manager Gordon Strachan has been quoted as saying he expects Naka to finish the remaining 6 months of his contract with Celtic.

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• 21 |  October 27th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

  
  
  

  I’ve read the same thing and confirmed two separate inside sources who I believe before posting this. This comes down to a family decision for him.

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• Matt |  October 27th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

  
  
  

  Oh yeah, I was sure that Naka would be going to Japan eventually. He wants his kids to grow up in Japan, but if Celtic don’t sell and Marinos don’t pony up enough cash he’ll be in Glasgow for 6 more months.

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• 21 |  October 27th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

  
  
  

  yes, he and the family want to get back to Japan and the decision of “when” is purely financial and apparently Nissan wants this to go. Of course if they make the move towards €6.5 it will be hard for Celtic to say no – what do you think?

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• Endo |  October 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

  
  
  

  i don’t think that he can help Yokohama for another title.
  He is the King in Yokohama and he’s a good impulse for Marinos offensive. We’ll se how good he’ll play with K.Yamase.

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• Pat |  October 27th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

  
  
  

  I think that’s a lot of money for a couple months.
  Looks like Celtic is practically holding him hostage.

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• 21 |  October 28th, 2008 at 6:50 am

  
  
  

  Endo – (great name btw). I agree with you and the Marinos need more than him but he would shake things up.

  If he was to be with them for training camp in Feb he would likely want to rest in January. For Celtic, this is obviously a good payday imho

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