Last season's Shandong Taishan team reached a new peak in the club's history. They beat Shanghai Harbour twice in league and FA Cup matches to win the team's third double.
Li Xiaopeng's successor, Taishan's new coach Hao Wei, not only successfully created a mature tactical system for the team, but also activated a number of local players in the team who had not been reused by Li Xiaopeng before, the most typical example of which is the 22-year-old high school striker Guo Tianyu.
After Pele and Guedes left the team one after another, Guo Tianyu was reused by Hao Wei. Last season, Guo Tianyu became the absolute main force in the front line of Taishan, and did not fall behind in 22 rounds of the Chinese Super League. With 10 league goals, he was tied with Beijing Guoan's Zhang Yuning as the top local scorer in last season's Chinese Super League.
What is even more valuable is that Guo Tianyu's 10 goals are from sports battles, which is one more than Zhang Yuning, so Guo Tianyu's goals have a higher gold content.
It can be said that after a season of successful training, Guo Tianyu has gradually become the best among the current domestic local forward players of the same age group.
In order to further improve Guo Tianyu's personal ability, the Chinese Football Association arranged for the 22-year-old to stay in Europe next season and play for Vizzella in the Portuguese Premier League.
Guo Tianyu can play in the top european league, of course, it is a good thing. But for Shandong Taishan, losing a team's main scorer, the attacking power of the front line next season may be greatly affected.
Therefore, Shandong Taishan is now in urgent need of strengthening the team's forward line. Recently, there have also been several foreign aides from the K League and the Taishan team. However, these transfer rumors have not been confirmed by the Tarzan club.
From the current situation, regardless of whether new forward players can be introduced, the Taishan team needs to dig inside next season to find a substitute for Guo Tianyu. At present, there is such a player in the team, he is the post-00s young player Tian Yuda.
Tian Yuda, born in 2001, has some similar characteristics to Guo Tianyu, with a height of 1 meter 91, and is also a standard center player, and his age is 2 years younger than Guo Tianyu.
In fact, Tian Yuda had the experience of staying in the Ocean earlier than Guo Tianyu. At the end of 2019, he went to Ligue 2 side Auxerre for a trial and was awarded a formal contract with the club. Unfortunately, due to the epidemic situation, Tian Yuda was not able to stay in Auxerre and missed this great opportunity to land in Europe.
After returning to China, Tian Yuda was loaned to teams such as Beiti University and Hebei Elite to practice, and last season, Tian Yuda played 25 games in the Chinese League A for Beiti University and scored 5 goals, helping Beiti University successfully complete the relegation task. As a high school striker, his ability to head and grab points has brought a lot of help to the forward line of Beiti University.
At the end of last year, Tian Yuda ended his loan period at Beiti University and has returned to Shandong Taishan. In the new season, the 20-year-old is likely to be left in the team as a stand-in for Guo Tianyu.
If the Taishan team can't find a suitable foreign forward for a while, Tian Yuda may even become the team's starting striker in extreme circumstances, and use his super air superiority to enrich the Taishan team's offensive play.
Here, we also want to bless Tian Yuda, who can seize the opportunity of Guo Tianyu's departure from the team in the new season, win the main position of a team's front line for himself, and like Guo Tianyu, use his outstanding performance in the league to knock on the door of the national team as soon as possible.