Xu Xiaobin

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Process

Marked for Xu Xiaobin

107 Edition

The Dalian Yingbo Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Dalian Yingbo make Duan Dezhi the dearest name in their history

$230.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Market

Mamadou Traoré asks to leave Dalian Yingbo

“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.

Market

Qi Yuxi has said yes to Yunnan Yukun

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Dalian Yingbo have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Min-Kyu Ji at 21 — 7.60

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Min-Kyu Ji did not need any: 7.60, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Boardroom

Dalian Yingbo go back to the board over Yang Shuai

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $50.1K — a club that wants Yang Shuai enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Tempers go at Dalian Yingbo

Isnik Alimi 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 targets

No deal for Yang Shuai at that price

Dalian Yingbo offered $47.0K; Qingdao Hainiu said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

The terraces

$230.0K for Duan Dezhi, and Dalian Yingbo supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Duan Dezhi from Qingdao Hainiu for $230.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Transfer targets

Deportivo Riestra tell Dalian Yingbo: Faustino De Vito 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.

In brief

Back issues
84 Edition

The Dalian Yingbo Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Market

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.

Market

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