It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Liu Yiming was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Shandong Taishan next, and one man in the Changchun Yatai dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
The offer from Bodo/Glimt for Ohi Omoijuanfo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Changchun Yatai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Tim Chow and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Zhang Xiuwei falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Changchun Yatai, and it is not being withdrawn.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Changchun Yatai have done the hard part with Zhejiang FC, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Tim Chow and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Changchun Yatai asked and Shandong Taishan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Zhang Junjie is on it.
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Ohi Omoijuanfo keeps the shirt for now, at Changchun Yatai's convenience rather than his own.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Liu Yiming was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Changchun Yatai will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Tim Chow and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Liu Haofan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
The dugoutZhang Junjie has become a man the manager trusts
The dugoutWu Junjie asks for a word with the manager
Tim Chow was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Mutalif has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Changchun Yatai have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Wu Hao chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Changchun Yatai lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.