This season, Beijing Guoan returned to the renewed Worker's Stadium, determined to do well in the league and make the new Worker's Stadium a gold-medal Chinese Super League market.
However, Guoan's performance in the first phase of the league is hardly satisfactory. After 12 rounds of matches, the team only achieved 4 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses, and is currently ranked seventh in the Chinese Super League table. The club's top management definitely couldn't accept such a result, so as soon as the first phase of the league ended, Coach Stanley was fired.
Stanley's successor, Luis Suarez, was also officially installed soon after. The Portuguese coach and his coaching staff are now in place to lead the team as they begin preparations for the second phase of the Super League.
However, Suarez received bad news as soon as he took over. Guoan's star striker Zhang Yuning had to undergo another surgery for a serious ankle injury. Judging from the current situation, Zhang Yuning is likely to miss all the remaining matches of the season
Zhang Yuning's season-ending injury is undoubtedly a heavy blow to Guoan, with the team's front line in a complete emergency. So far, the local golden boot of last season's Chinese Super League has only played three games on behalf of Guoan and has yet to get a single goal or assist. If he can't be signed in the summer window, Suarez can only find a replacement for Zhang Yuning as soon as possible by digging for potential within the team.
In fact, last season Guoan brought in a replacement for Zhang Yuning. He is the former high center forward Tian Yuda of Shandong Taishan. However, after adding Tian Yuda, not only did he not become the second Zhang Yuning of Guoan, but it was even difficult for him to get a chance to play. This season, he was rented to Changchun Yatai by Guoan, and has not played a minute in Yatai so far.
Similar to Tian Yuda is Fang Hao. Earlier this year, Fang Hao parted ways with Shandong Taishan and Guoan quickly waived the popular international player. However, after joining Guoan, Fang Hao did not become the team's main player. He has only played 6 games for Guoan as a substitute, totaling only 63 minutes of playing time and 0 goals and assists.
If Fang Hao still fails to prove himself and be reused by new coach Suarez in the next second phase of the league, he will probably step into Tian Yuda's footsteps and become a fringe player in the Guoan team.
Through the experience of Tian Yuda and Fang Hao in the Guoan team, we can now understand why Shandong Taishan Club is willing to not charge a penny transfer fee, because their current ability is not up to the level of playing in the Chinese Super League, so they directly "send" them to Beijing Guoan.
Tian Yuda, in particular, is basically only a half-baked player. If his father didn't have a personal relationship with Guoan club chairman Zhou Jinhui, Tian Yuda might not even make it to the gates of the Guoan team.
From this point of view, Guoan has become the Shandong Taishan team's "waste recycling station", some Taishan team do not want the players have been taken away. Although the introduction of Tian Yuda and Fang Hao did not spend the transfer fee, but their wages in the team is not low. And they also took up valuable registration slots in the Chinese Super League, depriving the young players from Guoan's ladder team of the chance to advance to the first team. It must be said that this wave of operation by the club's general manager Li Ming really makes it hard for fans to understand...
