Theoretically speaking, the new season of the Chinese Super League internal aid transfer market door officially opened on January 17, just as the Lantern Festival is approaching, came the heavy news: international Liao Lixiang is about to join Shandong Taishan, which may be the defending champions of the new season's first internal aid introduction?
It has been confirmed by reliable sources: Liao Lisheng's contract with Guangzhou has expired. In fact, Liao lost his contract before the start of the third phase of the 2021 Chinese Super League. However, due to the postponement of the Chinese Super League and the fact that it was held across the year, Guangzhou Football Club still signed a short-term supplemental agreement with Liao to ensure that he would be able to complete the entire 2021 season. Liao ended up starting in each of the final eight rounds of matches and was a star performer. Recently, he was once again selected for the national team coached by Li Xiaopeng and is currently isolated in Suzhou with the team in preparation for the tournament.
Given the special circumstances of the Guangzhou team, Liao Lixiang, who became a free agent at the end of last season's Chinese Super League, quickly became the meat and potatoes in the transfer market. After all, at 28 years old, he is in his prime, and is an active international soccer player, on the field can play back, front, right back and other positions. What's more, in the current national soccer team, Liao Lisheng is a rare local free kick master. In July last year, in Guangzhou's 6-0 win over Qingdao, he had a wonderful free kick goal, and in the earlier Olympic qualifiers, he had three consecutive group games through the set-piece score.
As a result, before the end of the season, three or four clubs were in contact with him, Shandong Taishan being one of them. However, the main focus of Taishan's team at that time was still whether Moises could successfully renew his contract. But on January 18th, Xu Xin, another international player, did not choose to renew his "+4" clause after his contract expired. Later that evening, Taishan began to start the waist search program. In addition to Liao Lisheng, there is an active international back was also taken into account, but because of this person and the affiliated clubs still have a two-year contract, and the basic plan to retire, therefore, Liao Lisheng was quickly listed as the first choice.
For Shandong Taishan, in order to get the active international footballer, will certainly face competition from a number of teams. Liao Lisheng himself would like to change the environment, but on the one hand, in order to seek a higher development platform, but also to consider the adaptation to the new environment. Liao Lisheng is a typical southern player, choose to go north can quickly adapt? After all, when he was with Tianjin Tianhai, his breakthrough journey was not a smooth one. Before the Chinese New Year, Meizhou Hakka, which is responsible for revitalizing soccer in southern Guangdong, also threw an olive branch to him, which made Liao's belonging full of suspense.
Until after the first day of the New Year, Taishan team began to accelerate the pace of negotiations, and they attracted Liao Lisheng's main factor, is the identity of the double champion. It is understood that Taishan can provide Liao Lisheng treatment conditions are not particularly generous, but strict compliance with the new policy of the Chinese Super League, and the team relies on the platform as well as a long standing in the Chinese Super League giants status, more likely to be favored in today's environment in China. As for the level of adaptation? Considering that Wang Tong, Shi Ke, Wu Xinghan, Liu Binbin and others in the Taishan team are Liao's old teammates in the National Olympic team before, and now with Wang Dalei, Jin Jingdao, Duan Liu Yu in the national team training together, the integration of the team should not be a problem. Moreover, the head coach Hao Wei year from Scolari at Evergrande, and Liao Lisheng has long had the experience of cooperation, the latter is also quite understand. And it is in the latter part of Scolari's coaching, Liao Lisheng once in the Evergrande team and kicked back to the main force. Eventually, on the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, he was also with his former mentor Hao Wei renewed their relationship.
Even so, Liao Lixiang is still grateful to the Guangzhou team and Guangdong soccer. From Dongguan Nancheng debut, until playing in the Guangzhou team in the Chinese Super League, AFC Champions League, into the national team, this Jieyang boy has always been rooted in Guangdong soccer and take off. And about his hometown Shangjie Village and South Primary School, Liao Lixiang has been three consecutive years to donate money to school, 2021, he was also awarded the Guangzhou Tianhe District anti-drug propaganda ambassador, gradually become the iconic representative of the South Guangdong soccer. It is worth mentioning that after missing out on Liao Lisheng, Meizhou Hakka instead sought to bring in Chen Zhechao from Shandong Taishan, who is now training with the team in Meizhou.
