The Qingdao Hainiu Herald
Squad11 Sep 2028
A fracture rules Carlos Strandberg out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Qingdao Hainiu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words exchanged at Qingdao Hainiu
Li Shenyuan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Qingdao Hainiu count the cost of losing Lu Peng
31 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad11 Sep 2028
A row about effort at Qingdao Hainiu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zhang Huachen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Liu Junshuai gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Niina Tominaga has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Qingdao Hainiu will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market11 Sep 2028
Malcom Edjouma linked with a move away
The name of Malcom Edjouma keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qingdao Hainiu say nothing, which says plenty.
Market11 Sep 2028
Talks stall between Qingdao Hainiu and Niina Tominaga
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market11 Sep 2028
The clock does Luo Senwen’s negotiating for him
6 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Qingdao Hainiu could ask drops and the wages Luo Senwen can ask rise.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Zhang Huachen in it
- The dugout Li Yuefeng asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead An away day at Zhejiang FC next for Qingdao Hainiu