Recently, the departure and stay of Shanghai Shenhua coach Wu Jingui has become a focus of media attention.
Wu Jingui led Shanghai Shenhua to a good record last season, finishing 5th in the Chinese Super League, and eliminated the strong Shandong Luneng in the FA Cup to win the final championship trophy. With Shanghai Shenhua's strength on paper last season, Wu Jingui can lead the team to achieve such a record, which is said to be quite good. But why are there constant rumors that Wu Jingui is leaving Shanghai Shenhua?
The reason is also very simple, that is, it is rumored on the Internet that Wu Jingui and the senior management of the Jiushi Group, who controls Shenhua, do not deal with each other, and there are differences in many ideas and concepts for team building, so this kind of news will continue to come out. According to the latest revelations by Russian journalists, former CSKA Moscow and Russian national team coach Slutsky has reached an agreement with Shenhua. As soon as this news came out, it further amplified the rumors that Wu Jingui might leave the team.
According to the latest news from the "Football News", the official of the Shenhua club has not yet made any response to the fact that Slutsky will become the owner of Shanghai Shenhua. There are roughly two reasons why Shenhua Club did not respond, one is that this matter is false and not worth responding, and the other is that it is true, but it does not want to be made public for the time being. And according to the historical Xi trend of online rumors, the latter is more likely. Otherwise, the rumors have passed for a day, and in order to reassure Wu Jingui, Shanghai Shenhua officials have already come out to refute the rumors.
If Shanghai Shenhua really chooses to abandon Wu Jingui and appoint new coach Slutsky, I think it will be a very unwise decision. Judging from the past history of Shanghai Shenhua, the foreign coaches who came to Shenhua to coach changed one after another, but in terms of the results achieved, none of them could surpass the cheap and practical Wu Jingui. It's not that the coaches invited by Shenhua are not level, but because none of them know how to coach Shenhua better than Wu Jingui. The successful firefighting of Shanghai Shenhua again and again, and the dismissal again and again, all show one point, that is, Wu Jingui is more suitable for Shanghai Shenhua than any foreign coach.
Although Slutsky is one of the most successful coaches in Russian football in the 21st century, it took him more than a month to lead CSKA to the knockout stage of the Champions League for the first time. But his shortcoming is that he doesn't know anything about Chinese football, and he is even more blank in the face of Chinese culture and human sophistication. Such a Slutsky, no matter how strong his coaching ability is, I am afraid that he will not be able to lead Shanghai Shenhua to glory.
So, hopefully, this is just a glimpse of gossip, and it's not true. Because Shanghai Shenhua can't withstand such a toss.