Reporter Niu Zhiming disclosed that Shandong Taishan Football Club will gather all the players on October 8 to prepare for the upcoming Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League.
As the Yokohama Mariners' AFC Champions League campaign comes to an end, the players will have a four-day break. On the eighth day, the Taishan team will regroup again and the majority of players are expected to return for preparatory training. In retrospect, foreigners usually enjoy longer vacations, especially veterans like Fellaini and Moises, who have been playing consecutive matches in the recent past and need ample time to adjust and recover. Starting from the 20th, Taishan will face three consecutive away matches in the next 10 days, from Changchun to Incheon and then to Shanghai, the team's lineup is in urgent need of rotation and adjustment. Between the 7th and 17th, Chen Pu, Wang Dalei and Liu Yang were called up by the national team, while Abdul Meat Suli, Xie Wenneng, Jia Feifan and Yu Jinyong participated in the Olympic selection training. In other words, the entire Taishan team is not expected to be together until the 18th.
