The Yunnan Yukun Courier
Squad5 Mar 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for He Xinjie
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Yunnan Yukun lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
Chingiz Seytjonov: 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.
Squad5 Mar 2029
6 saves: Dong Yifan was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Oscar Maritu signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oscar Maritu commits to Yunnan Yukun for another 4 years.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Tempers go at Yunnan Yukun
Dong Yifan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2029
Too dear: Yunnan Yukun walk away from Matt Orr
$50.0K was the most the club would pay and Qingdao West Coast were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
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.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2029
Door shut on Huo Shenping
Yunnan Yukun asked and Shandong Taishan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market5 Mar 2029
Yunnan Yukun promote Chen Chenglong from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Chen 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Cao Changjie joins the Yunnan Yukun first team
- Market One of our own: Tian Chenliang joins the Yunnan Yukun first team
- Market Yunnan Yukun promote Lyu Zhen from within