The Yunnan Yukun Courier
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Zhang Yufeng says Yunnan Yukun went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market8 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Yu Jianxian
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yu Jianxian will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Yunnan Yukun the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Andrei Burcă signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrei Burcă commits to Yunnan Yukun for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Oscar Maritu wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Yunnan Yukun can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Alexandru Ioniţă 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 Yunnan Yukun this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Yunnan Yukun
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
The game went through Alexandru Ioniţă — 6.81
Marked 6.81 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Market8 Mar 2027
Yunnan Yukun promote Luo Chenglong from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luo Chenglong 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Yunnan Yukun promote Fan Yixiang from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fan Yixiang 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Han Yi joins the Yunnan Yukun first team
- Match Yunnan Yukun come up short against Shanghai Shenhua
- The dugout No hiding place for Wu Shaocong