The Chengdu Rongcheng Gazette
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Yang Mingyang: 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.
Match4 Mar 2028
Still nobody has beaten Chengdu Rongcheng
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Liu Dianzuo keeps Chengdu Rongcheng in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market6 Mar 2028
Wang Dongsheng is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Chengdu Rongcheng is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Yegor Sorokin signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yegor Sorokin commits to Chengdu Rongcheng for another 2 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Chengdu Rongcheng
Ahmed El Messaoudi 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Chengdu Rongcheng
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.
Match4 Mar 2028
Chengdu Rongcheng find a way past Changchun Yatai
Changchun Yatai made Chengdu Rongcheng work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces6 Mar 2028
Chengdu Rongcheng supporters have found a favourite in Juan Aguilar
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Juan Aguilar has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Li Haoran joins the Chengdu Rongcheng first team
- Market Chengdu Rongcheng promote Tang Junwei from within
- Market Wei Chengrui steps up from the Chengdu Rongcheng academy