Li Deming

Defensive Midfielder - Qingdao West Coast
17 Aug 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Li Deming

53 Edition

The Qingdao West Coast Chronicle

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Nélson da Luz sold

Shanghai Port arrived with $4.6M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

Squad

Huang Zihao breaks a bone — 106 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Zhang Huachen puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Qingdao West Coast, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

A $4.6M sale, and a town that did not want it

Nélson da Luz has gone, the accounts have $4.6M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

The dugout

Li Deming keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Qingdao West Coast may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

The dugout

Luo Jing frozen out at Qingdao West Coast

This is not rotation. Luo Jing has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Qingdao West Coast is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Davidson in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Qingdao West Coast this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

An offer of $20.0K for Abdurusul

Qingdao West Coast have gone to Henan FC with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

No deal for Matt Orr at that price

Qingdao West Coast offered $8.0K; Shanghai Port said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Qingdao West Coast Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dong Hang breaks a bone — 63 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 63 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Shanghai Shenhua come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Qingdao West Coast did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Davidson in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Qingdao West Coast this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The decline has begun for Edvan

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Qingdao West Coast is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Squad

Abdul Aziz Yakubu 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Huo Shenping is in the works

Qingdao West Coast have made the call to Zhejiang FC. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Liu Shibo back under a manager who knows him

The new man at Qingdao West Coast has worked with Liu Shibo before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

Market

The Huang Zihao question follows Qingdao West Coast around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Huang Zihao’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Boardroom

Open for business: Qingdao West Coast enter the window

The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.

In brief