The dust has settled! The famous coach of the Chinese Super League was unloaded and killed by the donkey, and he was dismissed as soon as he won the championship, and the ending was afraid that both people and money would be empty
With the official announcement of Shanghai Shenhua, the fate of team coach Wu Jingui has finally been confirmed. After leading the team to win this year's FA Cup, the meritorious veteran coach was ruthlessly abandoned by the club and became a typical example of the sadness of "winning the championship and leaving class". Perhaps, Wu Jingui could never have imagined that after a year of hard work and just ushered in the harvest season, he was treated as "unloading the mill and killing the donkey".
This year is the first year that Jiushi Group has become the owner of Shanghai Shenhua, and originally did not have too high expectations for results, so judging from the results, Wu Jingui took Shenhua to win the fifth place in the Chinese Super League and the FA Cup, and won the qualification for next season's AFC Champions League, which is fully qualified to obtain a contract extension.
What's more, in the context of the Chinese Super League's general reliance on foreign aid, several foreign aides of Shenhua, except for the long-term injured Basogo, the mediocre Teixeira and Malele, and Yan Xinli, who is not qualified as a domestic aid, only Amadou is reliable. With such a team to enter the AFC Champions League, Wu Jingui is already worthy of a long-term investment.
In fact, after winning the FA Cup, Wu Jingui has triggered the clause of a one-year contract extension, which means that Shenhua and Jiushi actually have no reason to fire Wu Jingui, but they still insist on doing so. The reason behind it may be due to the expectation of future results, after all, Wu Jingui, as a local coach, may only bring these "ceilings" to Shenhua, and it will be impossible to pursue higher goals in the future.
But even so, Shenhua's handling of Wu Jingui's issue is still chilling. Theoretically, since Wu Jingui has triggered the renewal clause, to dismiss him, Shenhua must at least pay the next year's salary as liquidated damages, so that he and Wu Jingui can be regarded as getting together and parting. However, Shenhua did not want to pay, but wanted to get rid of Wu Jingui on the grounds that "the contract will end automatically when it expires", so that there is no need to pay a penny. Wu Jingui was naturally reluctant to accept such conditions, and according to domestic media, Shenhua even mobilized people around Wu Jingui to exert pressure on him, in order to persuade him to give up liquidated damages and accept the ending of "empty people and money".
In the official announcement copy, Shenhua also used the words "Wu Jingui's contract will not be renewed when it expires", which shows the club's secretive attitude towards liquidated damages. According to the disclosure of relevant information, although Shenhua officially announced Wu Jingui's resignation, the relevant termination procedures have not yet been completed, and Wu Jingui may have other actions next. In any case, this time I hope that Wu Jingui can be "tough" once and get all the money he should get, after all, the resignation condition of "the contract will not be renewed when it expires" is equivalent to completely erasing his contribution to the club this year, and it would be too unkind to be used as a monkey.