The Beijing Guoan Sentinel
Match8 Aug 2026
Beijing Guoan taken apart
0‑5 to Shanghai Port, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Beijing Guoan agree $370.0K for Juan Camilo Salazar
The clubs have shaken hands with Changchun Yatai; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ming Tian gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ming Tian has just signed for Beijing Guoan, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Qingdao West Coast come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Beijing Guoan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Béni N'Kololo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Béni N'Kololo commits to Beijing Guoan for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Beijing Guoan
Schettine 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ding Haifeng comes home
The shirt still fits. Ding Haifeng is back at Beijing Guoan, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Guilherme Ramos
“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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Lin Liangming runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Lyu Jin joins the Beijing Guoan first team
- Market One of our own: Tang Junwei joins the Beijing Guoan first team
- Squad Schettine has outgrown this division