Just before the owner Tran Thi Thanh Thuy returned home and ended the contract with the Japanese PFU Blue Cats Club, this team had a great fluctuation in personnel.
Accordingly, the homepage of “Blue Cats” posted notice Masayasu Sakamoto farewell to the team on March 31, 2024 after 5 attachments.
The coach shared: “I am extremely disappointed and feel sorry for not being able to bring good results. Hopefully PFU Blue Cats will continue to grow and become stronger ever since now.”
Thus, Thanh Thuy's coach after two years in Japan could not join this team to come to Vietnam to attend VTV9 – Binh Dien 2024 volleyball tournament in May.
During 5 years of leading the PFU Blue Cats, this team continuously disappointed when they only dive in the last group of the rankings. The most successful season, the team is only ranked in 9th place.
Many people criticize the way of using people and the difficult tactics of coach Masayasu Sakamoto when this team played very erratically, many times to lose confusing before the weak teams.
The ability to use the coach's people is also not popular with fans when pushing Thanh Thuy to the assistant and using the owner is less than 1.7m high as well as ineffective competition.