The Beijing Guoan Sentinel
Squad4 Jan 2027
Wang Gang damages knee ligaments — 74 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 74 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Beijing Guoan
Guilherme Ramos 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Wu Shaocong signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Wu Shaocong and Beijing Guoan agree another 3 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Beijing Guoan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Naibijan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Naibijan
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market4 Jan 2027
The Guilherme Ramos question follows Beijing Guoan around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Guilherme Ramos’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Feng Boxuan gets picked when it counts
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 Feng Boxuan is on it.
Market4 Jan 2027
The clock runs on Wu Shaocong's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market4 Jan 2027
Talks stall between Beijing Guoan and Zhang Yixuan
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- The dugout Bai Yang has been promised minutes
- The dugout Jiang Wenhao knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Xu Kesi leaves for nothing