Although not favored by many Shanghai fans, the old coach Wu Jingui still led the Shenhua team that began to rebuild in an all-round way this season to achieve unexpectedly good results, ranking fifth in the league and winning the FA Cup again.
Despite this, the current Wu Jingui is still in a deep crisis of leaving class. The overly conservative tactical style of play and the 1-0 victory in many games in the league have made many people, including the senior management of the Shenhua Club, dissatisfied with Wu Jingui. The voice of "Wu Jingui is out of class" has not stopped since the second half of the league last season.
However, it was not easy for Shenhua Club to get Wu Jingui out of class, after all, the veteran coach led the team to achieve better league results than last season, has completed the targets in the contract, and also exceeded the task to win the FA Cup.
And in order to let Wu Jingui out of class, the new owner of Shenhua Club, Jiushi Group, has also put a lot of effort. According to a well-known football media person with the surname L, the contradiction between Jiushi Group and Wu Jingui has always existed. Last season, Malele's performance was really not good, and Wu Jingui wanted to bring in a new foreign striker.
However, the club's senior management did not cooperate, deliberately made things difficult for Wu Jingui, and did not introduce new foreign strikers for the team. The purpose is obvious, that is, to make the Shenhua team unable to achieve enough victories and the league results are not up to standard, so that Wu Jingui's squid can be fired.
However, Wu Jingui's life was very hard, and he finally led the team to win the fifth place in the league. This left Jiushi Group without any excuse to fire him, and it had to renew the "1+1" new contract with Wu Jingui.
It is also worth mentioning that Wu Jingui has been coaching in Shenhua since 1996, and now he has a history of nearly 20 years, and his prestige in the team is still very large.
Although there have been scandals with Shanghai Shenhua such as Skorza and Lutzky recently, who can guarantee that these new foreign coaches will be able to lead the team to achieve better results than Wu Jingui after joining Shanghai Shenhua?
Especially after winning the FA Cup, next season's Shenhua team will participate in the AFC Champions League Classic, the third-line battle is quite difficult for the Shenhua team, once the league results are not good, then Jiushi Group will definitely not escape the infamy of "blind change of coach".
Therefore, judging from the current situation, it is definitely a more prudent choice for Shenhua Club to continue to retain Wu Jingui. But now the contradiction between Jiushi Group and Wu Jingui has been completely made public, which has put the club in a dilemma.
Let's keep Wu Jingui, will Jiushi Group buy new foreign aid for the team next season? If Wu Jingui is not retained, it is unreasonable to say in terms of emotion and reason. And the team's results are not guaranteed, and the new manager will definitely have to "take the blame" for the club's top management.
And this also makes the question of whether Wu Jingui will continue to stay in Shenhua next year even more confusing. Here, we also hope that Jiushi Group can take into account the overall situation, release past suspicions with Wu Jingui, and work together to improve the results of the Shenhua team. Otherwise, the Shenhua team, which has just returned to the right track, will fall into a new period of turmoil next season, right?