The Henan FC Post
Market23 Aug 2032
Terms done: Akira Haraguchi is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Shenzhen Peng City waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Henan FC is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market23 Aug 2032
Yonatan Shani 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2032
Henan FC close the window on a squad of their own making
19 in and 12 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Match21 Aug 2032
No end in sight to Henan FC's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Henan FC has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Aug 2032
Khaled Al-Jaberi 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.
Squad23 Aug 2032
Words at Henan FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Nazário is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad23 Aug 2032
Wang Bo signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Wang Bo and Henan FC agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2032
Shenzhen Peng City tell Henan FC: Hu Hetao is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad23 Aug 2032
A muscle injury sidelines Liu Wei for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Henan FC will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
In brief
- Transfer targets Henan FC try to borrow Li Moyu
- Market A long bet from Henan FC on Wang Bo
- The dugout Meng Jingchao left out for the big one