The Tianjin Jinmen Tiger Courier
Match2 Mar 2030
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger tear Qingdao West Coast apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Qingdao West Coast, and it could have been more.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
A brace, and Du Yuezheng takes the afternoon — 8.53
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Du Yuezheng provided it, and the 8.53 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
Vintage Alberto Quiles — 8.25
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.25, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout4 Mar 2030
Xu Xin: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tianjin Jinmen Tiger have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom4 Mar 2030
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Tianjin Jinmen Tiger
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad4 Mar 2030
Kilian Bevis 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.
Boardroom4 Mar 2030
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger beat the market to Yang Minjie from Qingdao West Coast
Qingdao West Coast will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Yang Minjie has pre-agreed a move to Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad4 Mar 2030
A falling-out at Tianjin Jinmen Tiger
Yang Mingrui and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces4 Mar 2030
The crowd has taken to Alan Coria
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market Fu Boxi steps up from the Tianjin Jinmen Tiger academy
- Market Tianjin Jinmen Tiger promote He Junwei from within
- Market Tianjin Jinmen Tiger promote Deng Yifan from within