Since Taishan's defeat in the AFC Cup, there has been a lot of talk about Choi Kang-hee's dismissal. Despite the fact that the Taishan team is in deep trouble due to the issue of liquidated damages, and Lao Cui's stay or departure is still a mystery, it is clear that his situation is not a coincidence, and the performance is certainly not the decisive factor. In my opinion, Lao Cui has attracted criticism in at least four dimensions.
This season, Taishan's team was affected by the tax turmoil, unstable mentality, frequent injuries in the AFC Champions League, the fifth in the league and the runner-up in the AFC Cup was a fair result. However, the FA Cup fiasco against Seaport exposed Old Cui's tactical shortcomings. Despite the gap with Harbor, Old Cui's performance against most of the teams in the Chinese Super League was fair. Obviously, performance is not the root cause of Cui's woes.
First of all, the reinforcement strategy is too much in favor of personal interests. After the decentralization of the club, Cui's eye for reinforcements is not as good as before. Pato's strength is not good and expensive, Wako and Moises compared to the obvious gap. Internal reinforcements such as Bi Jinhao are just for show. The quality of the reinforcements is low, and all of them come from the same agency, so naturally the skepticism is endless.
Secondly, cronyism, Pong Woong and Shi Ke were overused, young players' growth was limited, and Baihe Lamu was wrongly sold. In the AFC Cup final, Xie Wenneng and Huang Zhengyu were told to stay in the game even though they were eligible to play, while Pato and Jadason, who had not played for a long time, appeared on the scene, a puzzling move by Lao Cui.
Thirdly, tensions with players, coaches and referees. Fernando was forced to leave the team, Ji Xiang and Song Long were unable to train, quarreled with the assistant coaches, clashed during the final of the AFC Cup, and quarreled with the referees, Lao Cui lacked leadership style and was difficult to stabilize the military.
Fourth, lack of sense of responsibility at the critical moment. In the face of the problem of players' tax reimbursement, Lao Cui repeatedly said that he was unable to solve the problem and lacked the overall situation and sense of responsibility. The absence at the press conference is even more casual and lacks professionalism.
Taishan team on the old Cui seems to be helpless, and the old Cui also has no intention of lowering the liquidated damages to leave voluntarily. In the future, perhaps we can only look forward to a new turn of events.
