Following the introduction of Senegalese centre-forward Ndiaye through transfers and the signing of former Guangzhou international Zhang Linpeng, Shanghai Harbour Club and another active international, Xu Xin, have also "held hands".
Xu Xin, who will celebrate his 28th birthday tomorrow (April 19), played for Shandong Taishan last season and was the main back for the team to win the 2021 Chinese Super League and FA Cup doubles.
Xu Xin first played in the youth team of Atletico Madrid in La Liga, and in 2016, he transferred from Atletico Madrid B to Guangzhou for 4.3 million euros.
He has won three Chinese Super League titles, one FA Cup and one Chinese FA Super Cup with Guangzhou.
At the beginning of 2021, Xu Xin joined Shandong Taishan with a free transfer and quickly became the main force of the team. But he signed a 1+4 contract with Shandong Taishan. At the beginning of this year, after the expiration of the first year of the contract, the two sides did not agree on a contract extension, so Xu Xin became a free agent again.
Although many Chinese Super League clubs are very interested in signing Xu Xin, in the end Shanghai Harbor won the competition, and Xu Xin himself hopes to join a team with the strength to compete for the championship.
As an active international, Xu Xin's arrival will enhance the midfield strength of the Harbor team. In addition to Yang Shiyuan, there are no full-time back players in the Harbor team who are in the year of playing. Veteran Cai Huikang has rarely played in the past two seasons, foreign aid Mui is not a pure back, and U23 young player Abra Khan is also not a defensive back.
Regarding Xu Xin's joining the team, like the signing of Zhang Linpeng, the Shanghai Harbor Club has not yet officially announced.
At present, Xu Xin, who accompanied the national football team to the World Preliminary Round of 12 in Asia, is training in Haikou while isolating, and the Harbor players who are with him include goalkeeper Yan Junling, defender Wang Shenchao, newly joined Zhang Linpeng, and U23 international striker Liu Zhurun, who returned from the same plane as the national football team.
Due to the current epidemic in Shanghai, after the end of the quarantine at the end of this month, how the internationals of these harbor teams will arrange the next step has not yet been determined. Maybe they will go directly to the first stage of the new season of the Chinese Super League to meet their club teammates.
As for when and where the Chinese Super League will start in the new season, the Chinese Football Association has not released the final and exact information. In particular, how the two Shanghai Chinese Super League teams will go to the venue, how to isolate and when they can compete are all problems that need to be solved urgently.