For reasons that are well known, a variety of situations have emerged for many Chinese Super League clubs this season. Veterans Guangzhou Evergrande (now renamed Guangzhou) and Beijing Guoan both began to decline, while Dalian and Qingdao, two teams that had just entered the Chinese Super League for a few years, were directly kicked back into the Chinese First Division.
The situation of Qingdao team does not need to be said, after all, the Yellow Sea Club originally had no intention of overtaking, but only for the honor of the city, it barely entered the Chinese Super League in the 2019 season and returned to the Chinese First Division, which was originally in the club's plan.
The situation is different for Dalian people, as China's most famous football city, the old Dalian team has won the A League championship for many consecutive seasons. Nowadays, Dalian people have fallen to such a point that many fans are really sighing.
After being relegated to the Central League, Dalian Renren Club has also entered a "quiet period", and the club has not made any statement on the team's relegation so far. As for the team's future plans, when it will be able to return to the Chinese Super League, these need not be mentioned.
The fundamental reason why Dalian people have performed so disappointingly this year is the club's share reform. As we all know, after Wanda Group re-entered the Dalian team, it invested a lot of money hoping to rebuild Dalian people into a Super Team.
However, Wanda Group has never been able to obtain full control of the club, and in the case of the team's deteriorating performance, Wanda Group has also significantly reduced its investment in the club in the past 2 years. The departures of Carrasco, Hamsik, Rondon and Benitez have made the Dalian people today a Chinese Super League team.
After being officially relegated to the Central League, several foreign players who played for Dalian last season will also leave the team. It is reported that Swedish striker Larsson has recently completed a contract with the club, while the other two foreign players Boateng and Danielson will leave the team is only a matter of time.
In addition, several potential young players in the Dalian people's team are also likely to leave the team next season. Lin Liangming, Tong Lei, Tao Qianglong and Shan Huanhuan have now become the "fragrant food" in the Transfer Market of the Chinese Super League. If there is a team that can make an attractive enough offer, I believe they will not be non-selling products of the Dalian people' team.
Whether the above-mentioned young players will leave the team next season is still unknown. But now some of the veterans in the team are almost certain that they will leave the team in the near future.
Recently, Dalian veteran Sun Bo posted on social media, expressing his dissatisfaction with the club, and also seemed to imply that his fate with Dalian team had ended.
Although the 31-year-old Sun Bo is a native of Dalian, he is from the Luneng youth training system. When he was young, Sun Bo won many domestic youth league championships with the Luneng youth team and was selected for the national youth team coached by Su Maozhen.
In 2010, Sun Bo returned to Dalian and joined Dalian Albin, who was still in the Second Division at the time, and helped Dalian Albin team return to the Chinese Super League in only 2 years.
Today, Sun Bo, who has played for Dalian for 13 years, has gone from a small team to the most qualified veteran in the team. With the addition of young players, Sun Bo has faded out of the team's main squad in the last 2 seasons.
After Dalian is relegated to the Middle League, the team will also begin to clean up the last remaining veterans in the team. Players over 30 years old, such as Sun Bo, Zhang Chong, Zhao Xuri and Zheng Long, may leave the team.
The departure of 3 foreign aides, 4 young players with great potential and 4 experienced veterans will inevitably further reduce the strength of the Dalian people's team, and whether they can keep the position of the central league next year will probably become a problem...