Shanghai Shenhua is simply unstoppable in the Chinese Super League this season, the first 5 rounds of battles, they won 5 games and 5 wins, and won 5 consecutive wins in the opening game, leaving Shanghai Port, Beijing Guoan, and Shandong Luneng behind the three major Super League teams. In the minds of Chinese Super League fans, Shanghai Shenhua has become the biggest favorite team to win the Chinese Super League championship this season.
Shanghai Shenhua has achieved such a brilliant record, and the new Russian coach Slutsky is naturally indispensable. After five consecutive wins, his coaching ability has been widely praised by the outside world. Still, Slutsky is unlikely to be able to satisfy everyone, and the players under his command who are not reused may feel depressed.
For example, Yu Hanchao, who won the attention of the local coach Wu Jingui last season, was snubbed by Slutsky, and after the first 5 rounds, he only got 1 chance to start. But Yu Hanchao is not the most depressed person in the Shenhua Formation, there is a local young talent who is more embarrassing than the veteran Hanchao, this person is Wang Haijian, a favorite who was trained by Wu Jingui last season.
Statistics show that after the first 6 games (counting the Super Cup final), Wang Haijian only got 1 chance to play, and it was a substitute in garbage time, which shows that there is no place for Wang Haijian in the tactical system of the new coach Slutsky. At present, in the Shanghai Shenhua team, this young talent who once won Wu Jingui's attention has completely become a chicken rib player.
Wang Haijian is a youth elite cultivated by Shanghai Shenhua himself, since he was promoted to the first team of Shanghai Shenhua in the 2019 season, his performance is getting better and better, and when Wu Jingui coached Shanghai Shenhua again, he completely cashed out his football talent. In the 2022 and 2023 seasons, Wang Haijian ushered in the spring of his career in Shenhua, and in two seasons, he played a total of 59 games for Shanghai Shenhua, serving as a midfielder in the midfield, he is not only good at intercepting and stealing, but also has good frontcourt creativity, and is known as Wu Xi's successor, contributing a total of 3 goals and 2 assists to the team. Because of his outstanding performance in Shanghai Shenhua, Wang Haijian has also become the main player of the U23 national team, and he can get the opportunity to start almost every game. The outside world has high hopes for him and hails him as the hope star of the future of the Chinese men's football team.
Who would have thought that as soon as Wu Jingui left the team, the hopeful star of the national football team was snubbed by the new coach of Shenhua, Slutsky. He is only 23 years old this year, and he is in the golden age of professional footballers, and if he does not get stable playing time in Shenhua for a long time, it cannot be ruled out that he will have the idea of going to other Chinese Super League teams.