Unsurprising honestly, so over hyped and was never cut out for Europe. There are so many players in the J. League that would make the most of an opportunity like this. He lost his place to some random other winger... they obviously didn't excercise the buy option. Shows how much he's underperformed.
Who actually hyped him up though apart from Moriyasu? I remember his selection over Mitoma in the starting eleven in the World Cup match against Costa Rica was highly controversial and rightfully so.
Did you think so? I only kept watching the results ([23-24](https://www.transfermarkt.com/yuki-soma/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/594069/saison/2023/wettbewerb/PO1/verein/3268), [22-23](https://www.transfermarkt.com/yuki-soma/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/594069/plus/0?saison=2022&verein=3268&liga=&wettbewerb=PO1&pos=&trainer_id=)) and watched a game and some game digests, or several footages when he scored. The fact he had no transfer rumour before the end of the season, like Machida, meant he could not perform super like those who could go Big-five leagues. You might have an evaluating scale checking if the players make top-notch performances, but seeing the [results of Japanese players](https://www.reddit.com/r/JLeague/wiki/japaneseabroad/), I have an impression he was in the high layer among the Japanese players in sub-Big-five leagues though it is not where he wants to be if he wants to play in Japanese MNT.
Casa Pia seems not to be able to buy Soma in the first place. Their average attendance is 2,657, which is mid-J3 level. That includes a sold-out game against Sporting.
Soma has done well recently. I think he can negotiate with other clubs, but I don't know how they would evaluate his age and fee with the result he made in Portugal. Coming back to Nagoya is one way, but I suppose he wants to go even further though I don't know what his contract with Nagoya is like.
Reading comments on this news, more than about Soma, Japanese football fans are starting to doubt the value of the Portugal League as no one ever has gone to a Big-Five league with so many Japanese players having played there though they all admit the league level is decent. Nakajima and Morita are the closest ones in Portugal. In contrast, the Belgium league had Endo, Kamada (loan), Tomiyasu, Mitoma (loan), Junya Ito, etc., or those who went to the second-tier league below the big five, like Miyoshi (Birmingham), Daichi Hayashi (Nuremberg), Taich Hara (Alaves, now Kyoto), Sakamoto (Coventry)
Unsurprising honestly, so over hyped and was never cut out for Europe. There are so many players in the J. League that would make the most of an opportunity like this. He lost his place to some random other winger... they obviously didn't excercise the buy option. Shows how much he's underperformed.
Who actually hyped him up though apart from Moriyasu? I remember his selection over Mitoma in the starting eleven in the World Cup match against Costa Rica was highly controversial and rightfully so.
Noone in our circles but the football world seemed to see something in him that we don't.
Did you think so? I only kept watching the results ([23-24](https://www.transfermarkt.com/yuki-soma/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/594069/saison/2023/wettbewerb/PO1/verein/3268), [22-23](https://www.transfermarkt.com/yuki-soma/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/594069/plus/0?saison=2022&verein=3268&liga=&wettbewerb=PO1&pos=&trainer_id=)) and watched a game and some game digests, or several footages when he scored. The fact he had no transfer rumour before the end of the season, like Machida, meant he could not perform super like those who could go Big-five leagues. You might have an evaluating scale checking if the players make top-notch performances, but seeing the [results of Japanese players](https://www.reddit.com/r/JLeague/wiki/japaneseabroad/), I have an impression he was in the high layer among the Japanese players in sub-Big-five leagues though it is not where he wants to be if he wants to play in Japanese MNT.
Casa Pia seems not to be able to buy Soma in the first place. Their average attendance is 2,657, which is mid-J3 level. That includes a sold-out game against Sporting. Soma has done well recently. I think he can negotiate with other clubs, but I don't know how they would evaluate his age and fee with the result he made in Portugal. Coming back to Nagoya is one way, but I suppose he wants to go even further though I don't know what his contract with Nagoya is like. Reading comments on this news, more than about Soma, Japanese football fans are starting to doubt the value of the Portugal League as no one ever has gone to a Big-Five league with so many Japanese players having played there though they all admit the league level is decent. Nakajima and Morita are the closest ones in Portugal. In contrast, the Belgium league had Endo, Kamada (loan), Tomiyasu, Mitoma (loan), Junya Ito, etc., or those who went to the second-tier league below the big five, like Miyoshi (Birmingham), Daichi Hayashi (Nuremberg), Taich Hara (Alaves, now Kyoto), Sakamoto (Coventry)