Reporter Chen Yong reported that in the early morning of January 6, Qingdao Huanghai and his party flew directly from Qingdao to Kunming and officially opened the winter training, which is the second in the Chinese Super League, and guangzhou R&F was concentrated on January 4. In the past 2020 season, Qingdao Huanghai had a hard time relegating: in the group stage, they ranked 7th in Group B, and only won 2 games in 14 rounds, while there were 4 draws, which was the third lowest team in the regular season stage, but entered the elimination relegation stage, they defeated Wuhan Zhuoer with internal problems in the 2nd round and successfully relegated.
But it must be said that this success is a certain accident, after all, Zhuoer is still the 6th and 2020th season of the league in the 2019 season, because of the coaching problem, the team has fallen into chaos, otherwise the Yellow Sea is likely to be unable to take Zhuoer, so the relegation of the Yellow Sea may be more dangerous. The reason is very simple, in the 2021 season, Qingdao Huanghai must be more fully prepared, especially in the team lineup integration, while doing a good job in the introduction of foreign aid, so that the future Qingdao Huanghai can be guaranteed.
Perhaps for this reason, Qingdao Huanghai became the second team in the Chinese Super League to open winter training, and it is said that Guangzhou R&F, the first team to open winter training, lost 4 foreign aides, and both teams obviously have a strong sense of crisis, and then invariably made the decision to advance winter training.
In the 2020 season, Qingdao Huanghai was in trouble, in fact, it had a lot to do with the team's manager: throughout the season preparation period, Qingdao Huanghai's original coach Li Luo was not in the team, and he resigned before the start of the league, and Qingdao Huanghai became the only team in the Chinese Super League to invest in the new season without a head coach.
Subsequently, The new head coach of the Yellow Sea and the former Spaniard coach Ma Qin also broke the contract, and the Yellow Sea was forced to continue to choose the coach, and finally finalized Wu Jingui, even so, in the first 2 rounds, the Yellow Sea was also led by Chinese and foreign coaches.
It should be said that Wu Jingui's performance is still good, although the team's record is not very good, but the Yellow Sea's consecutive draws with Shanghai and Guoan are eye-catching, and the final relegation also proves Wu Jingui's strength to a certain extent.
At the end of the season, Huanghai finally decided not to renew his contract with Wu Jingui, because Huanghai still hopes to be led by a high-level coach and show the style of technical flow, because after the establishment of the Yellow Sea Club, it has been following Barcelona and taking the road of technical flow, and the decision-making level of Huanghai also has a "Barça complex" in his bones.
The only coach revealed so far is the former coach kim do-hoon of Ulsan Hyundai, who led the team to win the AFC Champions League title in the 2020 season, he advocates technical flow football, and Ulsan Hyundai also focuses on the technical flow style under his coaching, but the news shows that there is no breakthrough in the negotiations.
It is reported that the candidate coach of the Yellow Sea also has coaches from Spain, Portugal and other countries, in addition, the possibility of foreign coaches who have previously coached the Chinese Super League can be joined.
In any case, a stable coach is very important to the Yellow Sea, for example, the success of Chongqing Contemporary has a certain relationship with Zhang Wailong, and the dilemma of Wuhan Zhuoer in the 2020 season, the instability of the coach is the core reason.
For the Yellow Sea, the 2020 season has a poor start to the game, and there is also a certain relationship with foreign aid: at the beginning of the season, the Yellow Sea only had two foreign aides, Alessandrini (Roman) and Vukovic, Minara only started in the 5th round, Popovich only started in the 11th round, and Radonic only started in the 14th round. For the Yellow Sea, it is very important to ensure the introduction and arrival of 5 foreign players at the beginning of the season for the 2021 season.
At present, Qingdao Huanghai has decided to abandon Minara, on the one hand, Minara's performance is not satisfactory enough, his defensive data is not bad, averaging steals per game the team first, the Chinese Super League tied for 13th, averaging interception team first, the Chinese Super League tied for 40th, but the offensive end is general, more like a midfield sapper, can not play the role of the core of the midfield. The more important reason is that Minara was originally a player on loan in Qingdao Huanghai, and in the case of insufficient performance to be satisfactory, Minara was also abandoned.
As for popovich, another midfielder, perhaps because of the lack of games, he did not play a central role. His defensive ability is average, the defensive data is ranked behind the team, the offensive data is not bad, averaging 1.1 key passes per game, 3 crosses are the first in the team, and there is 1 goal at the same time.
In addition, center Radonic has not scored in 7 games, but he really played the next 4 games, with the first 3 games playing a total of 66 minutes. It is worth noting that the high school forwards themselves lack the ability to create opportunities and need the support of their teammates, so their run-in period is relatively long, such as Pele only really broke out in the 2018 season, Kaldek is also a season and a half after the gradual improvement, Teda's Wagner is the most interesting, the first 11 games 0 goals, the next 15 games actually exploded to score 12 goals, during which there were 7 consecutive rounds of goals.
In this case, about Popovich and Radonic, who are still players of the Yellow Sea, the Yellow Sea also said that a full range of assessments are needed to determine whether to continue to use them. For now, the foreign aid determined to remain is Alessandrini and Vukovic.
In the 2021 season, if The Yellow Sea wants to improve the team's combat effectiveness, two excellent midfielders and a good center forward are very much needed by the team, one of which has the ability to at least become the core player of the team, and the other midfielder can be used as a useful supplement.
It should be said that in the 2021 season, the local lineup of Qingdao Huanghai is afraid to face substantial changes.
First of all, whether the veteran Wang Dong stayed in the team or doubted, there was no veteran Wang Dong in the lineup to kunming winter training, Wang Dong was abandoned by Wu Jingui in the middle and late 2020 season, and the 15th round and later relegation key battles did not appear. In the 2021 season, Wang Dong's age will reach 40 years old, so Wang Dong is more likely to finally bid farewell to the Yellow Sea, but the club said that everything is also possible.
It is worth noting that former international Liu Jian rushed to Kunming with the team, Liu Jian is 36 years old this year, but in the 2020 season, Liu Jian still played 13 games for Beijing Renhe, is the team's main center-back, and contributed 1 goal and 2 assists, and his competitive state is still very good.
The biggest change is the departure of a number of loan players, including important u23 player Zhou Junchen, as well as Zhu Jianrong, Wang Wei, Wang Hao and others. In the 2020 season, Zhu Jianrong scored 4 goals and was the team's main scorer, and Zhou Junchen, as a u23 player, also had 1 goal and 1 assist, but he was also a player that Shanghai Shenhua focused on cultivating.
Of course, these players who have temporarily left, there is still a certain possibility of continuing to return to the Yellow Sea in the future: for example, Shenhua does not lack u23 players, Zhou Junchen returns to Shenhua, its position is still facing fierce competition, staying in the Yellow Sea to stabilize the game is more conducive to zhou Junchen's growth; in terms of center forwards, Shenhua has Jin Xinyu, and Bi Jinhao plays a good center, Zhu Jianrong is not indispensable; in the full-back position, Shenhua also has strong reserves, and even the young player Zhu Yue in 2001 has a good performance in the AFC Champions League. Wang Wei is not unable to continue to play for the Yellow Sea. However, this requires a relatively difficult round of negotiations.
In addition, there is news that Yin Yaji may follow Jody to join Zhejiang Greentown as a free body.
Of course, Zou Zheng, another loan player in the Yellow Sea, has now followed the team to Kunming Haigeng for training, and he and R&F still have a one-year contract, but at present, he is most likely to stay in the Yellow Sea.
Huanghai is more worried about the u23 players, in the case of Zhou Junchen's return to Shenhua and Mai Maiti is no longer a u23 player, the u23 players of the Yellow Sea are a problem that the team needs to solve very much. However, in the 2020 season, the Yellow Sea has been interested in training new u23 players, Fang Xinfeng in 1999 had 4 appearances, Zhang Haochen in 2000 also had 3 appearances, in addition, the 1999 reserve team captain Lu Haolin also had a good performance in the Yellow Sea internal warm-up match, this Haigeng training, the Yellow Sea reserve team also went with the first team, the club also said that it will focus on the situation of reserve team players, giving them more opportunities in the new season.
In fact, for Qingdao Huanghai, the more important task is to rebuild its own local player system.
In the 2020 season, Qingdao Huanghai, who has just entered the Chinese Super League, has a large shortage in the lineup, in this case, Qingdao Huanghai has adopted more loan players to strengthen the lineup, of course, Huanghai is also very targeted, focusing on the introduction of players needed by the team, while taking into account the Qingdao elements of loan players to ensure the cohesion and centripetal force of the team.
However, from a long-term point of view, in order to stabilize the survival and development of the Chinese Super League, Qingdao Huanghai must have a stable and reliable team of its own players, on this basis, and then through loan to make up for the lack of individual positions, otherwise it will face the reconstruction of the team every year, which is a great pressure for the Yellow Sea.
In the 2021 season, Qingdao Huanghai actually faces a better situation: because the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League is basically determined, in this season, the relegation quota of the Chinese Super League is likely to be 0.5 + 0.5, so the risk of relegation is relatively small, at this time, Qingdao Huanghai or the introduction of strong players, or focus on cultivating their own players, to create their own stable local player system, there is a large space.
Qingdao Huanghai must seize this favorable opportunity to make more adequate preparations for the future, once the Chinese Super League stabilizes at 18 teams, the relegation quota of the Chinese Super League is likely to become 2+0.5, and the pressure to survive will increase as never before.
Therefore, this winter seems to be a simple preparation period, but for Qingdao Huanghai, it is a very important reconstruction period, Huanghai needs to further establish club investment relations, further consolidate and stabilize the local lineup, and then introduce excellent coaches and foreign aides to be able to have long-term stability in the future.