The Henan FC Post
Squad7 Aug 2028
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.
Market7 Aug 2028
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.
Market7 Aug 2028
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 terraces7 Aug 2028
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.
Market7 Aug 2028
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.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
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 targets7 Aug 2028
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 terraces7 Aug 2028
$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
- Squad Words at Henan FC training over how hard people work
- Squad Abdulhamid Ikromov stays put
- Transfer targets Henan FC rebuffed over Wang Zhenghao