The transfer window for the Chinese Super League has not yet opened, but it has ushered in a series of personnel changes, mainly from the coaching staff of each team. Compared with the transfer of reinforcements, the change of coaches of each team is carried out first, mainly because only when the coach is determined, the recruitment work can be carried out. After the end of the 2023 season, many teams have changed coaches, including Shanghai Port, although they won the championship, Xavier still can't avoid the fate of class, and now Port has the duo of Muscat and Aloisi, and next season is even more worth looking forward to.
According to the news from the Japanese media "Nikkan Sports", Wuhan Three Towns will aim at the J-League, and former Urawa Red Diamonds coach Ricardo Rodriguez will be the coach of Wuhan Three Towns. At present, Wuhan Three Towns has not made a decision to adjust the current head coach Gao Fumian, but the results of several fronts of Wuhan Three Towns last season were not good, and Gao Fumian's resignation has become inevitable. Rodriguez has more coaching experience, and he also has a lot of experience coaching giants, and if he comes to bring it, he can at least ensure that Wuhan Three Towns' results and lineup are matched.
Rodriguez is particularly good at playing cup competitions, having joined Urawa Red Diamonds in the 2021 season, when the team had a poor record, but won the Emperor's Cup that season. After that, he entered the 2022 AFC Champions League as the cup champion, and as a result, he led the team to a blockbuster and went all the way to the final. Being able to dominate the East Asian region and reach the AFC Champions League final is quite a good result, which shows that he is very good at the cup mode. However, because of the poor results in the league, Urawa Red Diamonds fired him, and Wuhan Three Towns saw him as the target of the new coach.
Another strong team, Shanghai Shenhua, has also completed the change of coach, and the suspense of whether Wu Jingui can stay in the team has been revealed. Shanghai Shenhua has confirmed that Wu Jingui will no longer be the head coach of the team next season, even if Wu Jingui signed a "1+1" contract with Shenhua this season, Shenhua does not plan to trigger a priority renewal. It's not too surprising for Wu Jingui's dismissal, he is just the team's firefighting coach, and every time he coaches Shenhua, he is basically the role of firefighting coach. Although the firefighting coach won the FA Cup twice, he could not escape the fate of being out of class.
The new coach of Shenhua has been confirmed, and it is Russian coach Slutsky. The latter will become the second Russian coach in the history of the Shenhua team, the last being the old Chinese Super League Nepo. Of course, Shenhua only confirmed that he wanted to change the coach, but he has not yet completed the replacement, because the termination of the contract with Wu Jingui is not so easy. The latter exceeded the team's goal and automatically triggered the option to renew the contract for one year, but Shenhua did not want to renew the contract and did not want to pay the contract payment, so the two sides may have to stalemate for a period of time before the result.