The Shanghai Port Post
Squad5 Mar 2029
Tyias Browning breaks a bone — 68 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Mateus Vital stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mateus Vital and Shanghai Port agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Óscar Melendo 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 Shanghai Port this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Shanghai Port
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Tobías Cervera 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.
Market5 Mar 2029
Li Shuai steps up from the Shanghai Port academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Li Shuai 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.
Market5 Mar 2029
Shanghai Port promote Sun Xiaobin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sun Xiaobin 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.
Market5 Mar 2029
Shanghai Port promote Liao Chengdong from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Liao Chengdong 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.
Market5 Mar 2029
Shanghai Port promote Yan Haoran from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yan Haoran 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
- Boardroom Shanghai Port let a promise lapse
- The dugout Shanghai Port keep their word to Tobías Cervera
- The dugout Óscar Melendo gets picked when it counts