The Yunnan Yukun Courier
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Zhang Yutong: 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.” Yunnan Yukun have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Li Hao stands alone
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market6 Mar 2028
Zheng Dalun asks to leave Yunnan Yukun
“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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Zhang Yufeng is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Yunnan Yukun is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Alexandru Ioniţă signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandru Ioniţă and Yunnan Yukun agree another 3 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Yunnan Yukun
Alexandru Ioniţă 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Yunnan Yukun
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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words at Yunnan Yukun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oscar Maritu 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.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Yunnan Yukun rebuffed over Santiago Torres
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Quilmes have kept their man, and Yunnan Yukun go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Yunnan Yukun against Shanghai Shenhua
- Market Yunnan Yukun promote Zhao Xin from within
- Market One of our own: Wei Ang joins the Yunnan Yukun first team