At 24:00 on April 29, the transfer window of the 2022 Chinese Super League winter window was officially closed, and the reinforcements of various clubs were temporarily over. Last season's double champion Shandong Taishan continuously updated social media dynamics on the evening of the 29th and the early morning of the 30th, officially announcing the team's reinforcements and player departures. This winter window, the Tarzan team introduced Cressan and Liao Lisheng, and officially bought out the Brazilian iron guard Jadson. Compared with the signing of 3 people, the Taishan team officially announced that the players left the team as high as 26, of which 8 were on loan and 18 were permanently transferred. It is worth mentioning that it does not include Xu Xin, Cheng Yuan and other freely departed players. If you count them, the Tarzan team has more than 30 players sent away in this transfer window. The arrogance of the first youth training player in the Chinese Super League can be seen.
The 18 players transferred are all youth players produced by Luneng Football School, including Ji Shengpan, Tian Yuda, Shi Yan, Yang Yilin and other well-known young people who have proved their strength in the professional league. Among the 8 people on loan, Guo Tianyu, Leonardo, Liu Junshuai and others were also the main players of the Taishan team. This time, their footprints will cover the Chinese Super League, Chinese First Division and Chinese Second Division Professional League, and Guo Tianyu and Leonardo will play in the Portuguese Super League and the Korean K League respectively.
Of course, even if so many young players are released, you don't have to worry about taishan's successor, because they also have a U21 youth team that is competing in the AFC Champions League, although the record is not satisfactory, but the performance of Baihe Lamu, Yi Xianlong, Lu Yongtao, Yang Ruiqi, Cao Zheng, Lin Guoyu and Liu Guobao is still quite bright, and in the new season, some of them will be upgraded to the Taishan first team and become the new blood of the team. At that time, these hairy boys will bring happiness to the main commander Hao Wei.
Letting go of so many young players in one go also shows the change of thinking of Taishan's youth training in the football environment. In fact, in the first few years of the establishment of Luneng Football School, although it also cultivated a lot of talents, such as the talented 85 and 87 golden generations, but at that time, in addition to the leaders such as Zhou Haibin, Cui Peng and Wang Yongpo, who could stand firm in the Luneng first team, most of their peers could only spend time on the bench, and eventually faded away, and few people were allowed to leave the team. The reason for this is that these players were regarded as the assets of the club at that time, and no one dared to bear the charge of asset loss, so these players who had great potential could only be wasted.
Of course, after that, the situation has changed, Xu Yang, Mai Tijiang, Gao Di, Chen Hao and other players bravely went out and proved their strength, and also made the best advertisement for Luneng Football School. In the winter window of the 2017 season, Wang Yongpo, who entered Luneng Football School at the age of 12 and played for the Taishan first team for 15 years, left the team to join the then local tycoon Tianjin Quanjian. His departure not only made the Taishan team earn a transfer fee of more than 100 million yuan, but also a turning point in the team's youth training ideas.
In 2020, when Luneng completed the equity reform and Jinan Cultural Tourism became the largest shareholder, Luneng Football School determined a business policy, changing the first line team dedicated to Taishan to "the primary goal of transporting the first team, followed by the transportation of other professional teams, and even purposefully transported to colleges and universities". This kind of business idea avoids the waste of resources of young players to the greatest extent and provides a broader stage for them to display their football talents. In this way, Luneng Football School has also become the rear of the chinese football three-level professional league, and a steady stream of players enriches professional football clubs at all levels, while also quietly accumulating strength for the revival of Chinese football. This pattern is unparalleled in Chinese football.