Lu Peng

Central Defender - Qingdao Hainiu U18
6 May 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lu Peng

111 Edition

The Qingdao Hainiu Herald

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Market

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

Back issues
84 Edition

The Qingdao Hainiu Herald

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Qingdao Hainiu let it slip despite Wang Ziming

Wang Ziming had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Shenzhen Peng City were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Malcom Edjouma goes up and wins it — 7.50

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.50 for the rest of it.

The dugout

Luo Senwen frozen out at Qingdao Hainiu

This is not rotation. Luo Senwen has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Qingdao Hainiu is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Baihlam signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Baihlam commits to Qingdao Hainiu for another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Qingdao Hainiu

Wang Ziming 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Qingdao Hainiu

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

Malcom Edjouma 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 targets

Qingdao Hainiu rebuffed over Qi Yuxi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dalian Yingbo have kept their man, and Qingdao Hainiu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Qingdao Hainiu promote Ge Yangyang from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ge Yangyang 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