The Shenzhen Peng City Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Shenzhen Peng City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wesley Moraes 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Jin Xiaobin joins the Shenzhen Peng City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jin Xiaobin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Hou Ang steps up from the Shenzhen Peng City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hou Ang 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No place for Sassá in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Shenzhen Peng City are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Match12 Sep 2026
Shenzhen Peng City share the spoils with Wuhan Three Towns
A 1‑1 draw with Wuhan Three Towns leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Duan-Liu Yu has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Shenzhen Peng City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Peng Junjie on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Peng Junjie after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kaká finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Shenzhen Peng City have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Yu Rui goes back to face Shanghai Port
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Yu Rui’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Shenzhen Peng City needing him to play as if none of it matters.