Delgado faces challenge as T&T wideout Moises returns
Taishan's foreign aid Moises is steadily making his way back to China, with his former club revealing that the player has completed the team's follow-through training and is about to return to his homeland. The return of Moises will undoubtedly pose a problem for teammate Delgado, as the two players overlap. Although Delgado failed to get a chance to play in the first five rounds of matches, it seems to be more and more difficult for him to get off the mark in the upcoming matches.
Delgado has not featured in an official game for nearly a year since ending his loan spell in the Portuguese Superliga last June. Last season, despite the expiration of his loan contract and his return to the Taishan squad, then-manager Li Xiaopeng did not include him in the first-team roster, and he could only train with the reserve team, spending a season without a game.
This season, affected by the epidemic, both Moises and Guedes did not return to the team, and manager Hao Wei finally gave Delgado a chance to play as a foreigner. However, in the first five rounds of matches, he did not even have a minute of playing time. Delgado rarely appeared in front of the fans, except for showing interesting stories about the team's new recruit Leonardo on social media platforms.
Delgado has been playing for Taishan for two years now, since officially joining the team in 2019, but the issue of his status remains tricky. Due to the new rules of the Football Association, naturalized players who have not played in our league for five years or have not represented the national team can only register as foreigners in the league. Despite the fact that Delgado already holds a Chinese ID card, he is still considered a foreigner for the time being. In addition, he was loaned out to the Portuguese Premier League last year, and because he was naturalized in China, he took up the foreign aid quota in Europe as well. In other words, he can only register as a foreigner no matter where he is.
