At 24:00 on April 29, the transfer window of the 2022 Chinese Super League winter window was closed, and last season's double champion Shandong Taishan introduced Kressan and Liao Lisheng, bought out the double champion Jia Desong, and also sent away as many as 28 players. However, for Xu Xin, the main midfielder who joined Shanghai Harbor, the Taishan team did not mention anything this time. Obviously, in the decades of team history of this super giant, Xu Xin is just a passerby.
Last season, Shandong Taishan Returned, winning the double of the Chinese Super League and the FA Cup for the third time in the history of the team. Among them, Xu Xin, who came from Guangzhou to shoot freely, performed very well, scoring 3 goals in 21 Chinese Super League games and providing 2 assists, especially against Hebei, his goal helped Shandong Taishan lock up the victory and win the championship three rounds in advance. Under Hao Wei, Xu Xin enjoys the treatment of tactical core and has sufficient ball power, while the three foreign assistants Sun Zhunhao, Fellaini and Moises are all responsible for different degrees of defensive interception tasks. In other words, Xu Xin's outstanding performance is actually directly related to the care of the three major foreign aides in the Taishan team.
In fact, although the strength is good, Xu Xin's departure will not affect the strength of the Taishan team too much, on the contrary, it will let Duan Liuyu and other Taishan youth players see the opportunity. Last season, because Guo Tianyu firmly occupied the position of U23 starter, and the offensive midfielder and even shadow striker he was good at could not get too many opportunities because of Xu Xin's existence, which made Xiao Duan once in a difficult situation and even exposed to leave the team on loan. Today, he is no longer a U23 player of the right age, but Xu Xin's departure from the team will be very good for Duan Liuyu's ascension, after all, head coach Hao Wei has always been obsessed with passing tactics, and Duan Liuyu, who has delicate techniques under his feet, is very in line with his requirements.
In addition, for Xu Xin, leaving Shandong Taishan to join Shanghai Seaport may not be a good choice. Although the seaport may have given him a higher salary, the lights and greenery of Shanghai Beach are not comparable to the simple and unpretentious city of Jinan. But whether Xu Xin can continue his heroic performance last season at the harbor is still unknown.
First of all, the reason why Xu Xin joined Taishan is inseparable from Hao Wei's efforts, Hao Wei, who once served as an assistant coach of Evergrande, once worked with Xu Xin and knew the personal ability of this Atletico teenager, a new recruit who had just arrived could be immediately given a heavy responsibility, and he could also let foreign aid lay hands, which was naturally Hao Wei's care. In this case, Xu Xin, a former Evergrande marginal player, got the opportunity to show his personal ability to the fullest, and his play was naturally rising. However, the absolute core of the shanghai seaport midfield is the former Brazilian international Oscar, and Xu Xin wants to enjoy the core treatment of the Taishan team, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream. Instead, he had to take on a certain defensive task in the service of Oscar.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Xu Xin's biggest weakness is that although his personal ability is good, his performance is extremely unstable, and he often has a ghost. During his time with Taishan last season, Xu Xin assisted Guo Tianyu in the first round of the league, but his Taishan debut did not appear until the 8th round. Then it was the 12th round of the first stage, and Xu Xin's second Chinese Super League goal of the season arrived. Compared with Sun Junhao's 4 goals and 6 assists in 21 games, Fellaini's 10 goals in 20 games, and Moises' 6 games with 1 goal and 3 assists, Xu Xin's performances are dwarfed.
Of course, for Shanghai Harbor, which aims to win the Chinese Super League in the new season, signing Xu Xin on the one hand can improve the midfield strength of the team, even if Xu Xin's performance does not meet expectations, at least it weakens the strength of the biggest competitor, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. In any case, I still wish Xu Xin that the sky is high and the birds can fly, and the sea is wide and the fish leaps.