The Tianjin Jinmen Tiger Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Not going: Li Yuefeng stays at Tianjin Jinmen Tiger
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Dalian Yingbo had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Cristian Salvador wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Tianjin Jinmen Tiger know it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Xadas 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Iván Calligaris
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger asked and Racing said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tianjin Jinmen Tiger
Ba Dun 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
Hu Chao steps up from the Tianjin Jinmen Tiger academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hu Chao has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger promote Cao Yu from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cao Yu has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Chen Hao steps up from the Tianjin Jinmen Tiger academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Chen Hao has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
6 new faces, and Tianjin Jinmen Tiger are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Player ratings Ba Dun beats them one at a time
- Player ratings The one thing Alberto Quiles could not do