The Dalian Yingbo Gazette
Market6 Mar 2028
Keisuke Tsukui hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dalian Yingbo can pretend not to have heard.
Match4 Mar 2028
No end in sight to Dalian Yingbo's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dalian Yingbo has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Mamadou Traoré signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mamadou Traoré commits to Dalian Yingbo for another 2 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Isnik Alimi 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 Dalian Yingbo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Dalian Yingbo
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
A row about effort at Dalian Yingbo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mamadou Traoré was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Deportivo Riestra tell Dalian Yingbo: Santino Coppola is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market6 Mar 2028
One of our own: Chen Binbin joins the Dalian Yingbo first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Chen Binbin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Mar 2028
Xu Xiaobin steps up from the Dalian Yingbo academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Xu Xiaobin 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.
In brief
- Market Cao Aihui steps up from the Dalian Yingbo academy
- Match Beijing Guoan take the points off Dalian Yingbo
- The dugout No hiding place for Yang Zexiang