The Chengdu Rongcheng Gazette
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Hu Peng: 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.” Chengdu Rongcheng have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Felipe Silva signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Felipe Silva commits to Chengdu Rongcheng for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Haruna Hassan wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Chengdu Rongcheng know it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Chengdu Rongcheng
Yegor Sorokin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
4 academy graduates step up at Chengdu Rongcheng
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Ahmed El Messaoudi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Henan FC tell Chengdu Rongcheng: Liu Weiguo 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Wei Yifan joins the Chengdu Rongcheng first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wei Yifan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Chengdu Rongcheng promote Dong Yixuan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dong Yixuan 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 Chengrui joins the Chengdu Rongcheng first team
- Market Peng Junjie steps up from the Chengdu Rongcheng academy
- Match Chengdu Rongcheng come up short against Changchun Yatai