The fate of the missing major general in the final 12 of the national football team is uncertain, and people inside and outside the Chinese football circle are not buzzing, while most of the participating clubs in the Chinese professional league are forced to tighten their roots and begin to abandon some veterans with high salaries in the squad. However, in this case, last season's double champion Shandong Taishan bucked the tide and quietly completed the renewal of contracts with 7 players, including Zhang Chi, Dai Lin, Wang Dalei and Zheng Zheng, including 4 30-year veterans, of which Zhang Chi and Dai Lin renewed their contracts until the end of 2023, Wang Dalei and Qi Tianyu renewed their contracts until the end of 2024, and Liu Binbin, Zheng Zheng and Wang Tong renewed their contracts until the end of 2026.
In fact, in an interview after the final of the FA Cup last season, Wang Dalei admitted that he had completed the contract extension with Taishan, considering the team's absolute main force identity and the advantages of the goalkeeper's athletic lifespan, it was not surprising that Taishan completed the renewal with him. And Liu Binbin, Zheng Zheng, Qi Tianyu and Wang Tong, four players from Luneng's youth training, also performed well last season, and are the absolute main force or rotation main force of the team, and it is only natural to get a contract extension.
Compared with the above five players, Zhang Chi and Dai Lin, who were also born in 87, will turn 35 this year and are already marginal players in the team last season. Zhang Chi only made 2 appearances on the bench last season, most of the time in recuperation, Dai Lin has made 5 appearances and 2 starts in various competitions, including 1 appearance and 1 start in the Chinese Super League, scoring 1 goal. In the 2020 season, Dai Lin is already an absolute substitute for Taishan, with only 3 appearances and 2 starts in the Chinese Super League, and 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Zhang Chi has been seriously injured several times and it is difficult to recover to the previous state, and Dai Lin, who has been in the battle for a long time, was more confused about the future before, and when doing live broadcasting, he was asked by netizens whether to renew his contract. However, now that Boss Dai has come to japan, a 2-year contract extension is estimated to make him feel like a pie in the sky.
In the case of most of the Chinese Super League teams are meticulous and even ready to use young players to play the world, Taishan's completion of the contract renewal with 4 30-year-olds is humane. Because players like Zhang Chi and Dai Lin, who are already 34 years old, if they can't renew their contracts, it almost means the end of their careers. Fortunately, the Tarzan team has not forgotten their contributions.
As a late-blooming Luneng youth player, Zhang Chi's career is full of ups and downs, the first round of the 2011 season was seriously injured so that he was away from the field for more than 3 years, but he finally returned to the field with amazing perseverance and efforts unimaginable to ordinary people, and became the main force of the team again in the year of his establishment, which is an inspirational model for Chinese local players. In the past two years, Zhang Chi has been seriously injured twice in succession, and although he has come back now, it is difficult to get too many opportunities in the first team.
Dai Lin, who joined Taishan with Wang Dalei before the start of the 2014 season, was the team's absolute main center-back for the next 6 seasons, and his partnership with Jill can be described as a combination of Pearls and Tarzan. Of course, with the increase of age, especially the successive additions of Shi Ke and Jia Desong this season, Dai Lin inevitably retreated to the second line, but in the battle with Guoan, Dai Lin not only staged her premiere in the Chinese Super League of the season but also scored the equalizer goal, and the state remained quite good.
The two veterans have made outstanding contributions to the Tarzan team, and although they are no longer the main force, they are still eager to continue to gallop on the green field, and the Tarzan team has not disappointed them. In fact, even if the two bid farewell to their careers as players when their contracts expire this time, they may not say goodbye to the Taishan team, and the echelon coaching position is waiting for a vacancy. Zhou Haibin, Han Peng and the returning Wang Qiang have all gone to the echelon to teach, and the picture of Brother Ji and Boss Dai becoming coaches is estimated that Taishan fans are also looking forward to it.
Once upon a time, Shandong Taishan was a team that was not friendly to veterans, and the two leading players Su Maozhen and Shao Yanjie were swept out of the house in the year of playing, and Li Jinyu's retirement was not pleasant. But in recent years, the Taishan team has done quite well in terms of human feelings, and the former team celebrities have returned, and last season, the Taishan coaching staff appeared familiar faces such as Shu Chang, Jiao Zhe and Han Peng. This season, Cui Peng has basically determined his return and assisted Hao Wei as an assistant coach. In the darkest moments of Chinese football, Shandong Taishan showed the responsibility and sense of responsibility of an old giant.