After the Chinese Football Association official announced that Li Xiaopeng replaced Li Tie as the manager of the national football team, the Wuhan team also quickly announced that Li Jinyu would succeed Li Xiaopeng as the manager of the Wuhan team and lead the team to compete in the relegation group competition of the second stage of the Chinese Super League.
When Li Xiaopeng confirmed to become the manager of the national football team, there was news that Li Xiaopeng would not bring his coaching team during his time in Wuhan to the national football team, and except for Hu Yu, Li Xiaopeng would not take anyone, including his own concubines Li Jinyu and Li Leilei.
After Li Jinyu retired from the army, he accompanied Li Xiaopeng to the Chinese women's football team in 2011 as an assistant coach of the Chinese women's football team, specializing in training forwards. After leaving the Chinese women's football team, Li Jinyu once returned to Shandong Luneng as a deputy team leader. In 2012, Li Jinyu served as an assistant coach for the Shenyang team, and then as the coach of the Shenyang team.
In 2016, Li Jinyu became the deputy general manager and technical director of Shijiazhuang Yongchang (now Cangzhou Xiongshi), and in the middle of the year, Li Jinyu became the acting manager of Cangzhou. In 2017, Li Jinyu went to Suning Sports as vice president, and then served as the leader of the Jiangsu team, the head of the Chinese coaching team, the acting coach and other positions, in 2021, after Li Xiaopeng became the coach of the Wuhan team, Li Jinyu followed Li Xiaopeng again and became a member of the coaching team of the Wuhan team.
Due to Li Tie's dismissal, li Xiaopeng was appointed as the national football coach at a higher level, and the Wuhan team also contributed two consecutive national football coaches, and did not have much time to choose a new coach, so Li Jinyu was led to play in the relegation group. Wuhan team officials said that they look forward to good results under the leadership of Li Jinyu.
In the first stage of the Chinese Super League, Wuhan team scored 11 points, points pressure Cangzhou (10 points), Jinmen Tiger (9 points), Dalian and Qingdao team (both 7 points), or have a certain amount of relegation pressure.