The Shanghai Shenhua Herald
Market6 Mar 2028
Shin'ichi Chan puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Shanghai Shenhua, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Mar 2028
6 saves: Jian Tao 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A falling-out at Shanghai Shenhua
Schettine and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Time is catching up with João Carlos Teixeira
Everybody at Shanghai Shenhua saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Shanghai Shenhua
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 Shanghai Shenhua
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zhu Chenjie was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match4 Mar 2028
Saulo Mineiro’s goal not enough for Shanghai Shenhua
Saulo Mineiro scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Yunnan Yukun, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market6 Mar 2028
Shanghai Shenhua promote Yang Wei from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yang Wei 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
One of our own: Fu Yifan joins the Shanghai Shenhua first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fu Yifan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Shanghai Shenhua promote Zhang Biao from within
- Boardroom Shanghai Shenhua board go back on their word
- The dugout No hiding place for Jian Tao