Abdulhamid Ikromov

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Henan FC
27 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Abdulhamid Ikromov

106 Edition

The Henan FC Post

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Huang Ruifeng damages knee ligaments — 81 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 81 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.

Market

Henan FC make Guo Jiayu the dearest name in their history

$47.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Chen Keqiang sold

Yunnan Yukun arrived with $70.0K 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.

The terraces

A $70.0K sale, and a town that did not want it

Chen Keqiang has gone, the accounts have $70.0K 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.

Market

Zheng Junwei asks to leave Henan FC

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Henan FC go back to the board over Shi Yan

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $40.0K — a club that wants Shi Yan enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Tempers go at Henan FC

Arinze Udeh Clinton 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Henan FC walk away from Shi Yan

$38.0K was the most the club would pay and Tianjin Jinmen Tiger were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

The terraces

$47.0K for Guo Jiayu, and Henan FC supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Guo Jiayu from Wuhan Three Towns for $47.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

In brief

Back issues
105 Edition

The Henan FC Post

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Huang Ruifeng out for 89 days

89 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Henan FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Hebert sold

Chengdu Rongcheng arrived with $260.0K 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.

The terraces

A $260.0K sale, and a town that did not want it

Hebert has gone, the accounts have $260.0K 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.

Market

Henan FC turn down Shanghai Shenhua for Micaías

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Chen Keqiang asks to leave Henan FC

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Arinze Udeh Clinton 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 Henan FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

An offer of $32.0K for Shi Yan

Henan FC have gone to Tianjin Jinmen Tiger 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.

Squad

Abdulhamid Ikromov gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Abdulhamid Ikromov has just signed for Henan FC, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A row about effort at Henan FC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jaume Grau was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief