Last season, Shanghai Shenhua won the FA Cup under the leadership of Wu Jingui, and in the new season, Shanghai Shenhua invited former Russian national team coach Slutsky to replace Wu Jingui as the new coach of the team. and defeated last season's Chinese Super League champion Shanghai Port in the Super Cup final to win the title. This offseason, Shanghai Shenhua, with the financial support of Shanghai Jiushi Group, continued to recruit in the transfer market. They introduced Gao Tianyi from Beijing Guoan and Xie Pengfei, a popular international player from Wuhan Three Towns, at a cost of 5 million yuan. In terms of foreign aid, Shanghai Shenhua signed Fofana, Luiz, and Fernando, and they formed Shanghai Shenhua's five foreign aids, together with Malele and Teixeira, who played for Shanghai Shenhua last season.
After the introduction came to an end, Shanghai Shenhua also began to purge the team's lineup. According to the official information provided by Shanghai Shenhua, 7 players including Xu Yougang, Zhang Wei, Xue Qinghao, and Zhu Qiwen left the Shenhua team on loan. It is reported that Xu Yougang will join the Chinese League A team Guangxi Pingguo Ha Yi in the new season. Zhang Wei and Xue Qinghao will join Qingdao Manatee and Nantong Zhiyun respectively in the Chinese Super League. Zhu Qiwen joined Nanjing City Football Club on loan; Jiang Zhixin joined Wuxi Wugou Football Club on loan; He Longhai joined Qingdao West Coast Football Club on loan; Wang Hao joined Shenzhen Xinpeng on loan from the Chinese Super League. Shenhua officials expressed their gratitude to these 7 players and wished them all the best in the future.
Since Shanghai Jiushi Group took over Shanghai Shenhua last season, it has helped the team solve the debt problem, repaid the arrears of players' wages, and helped Shanghai Shenhua introduce a number of foreign aides last season, as well as powerful domestic players such as popular international player Dai Weijun, laying a good foundation for Shanghai Shenhua to win the FA Cup. In the new season, Shanghai Shenhua is facing the Chinese Super League, the AFC Champions League, and the FA Cup. If the team needs it, Shanghai Shenhua can also strengthen the squad again according to the needs of the team after the next transfer window of the Chinese Super League opens.
On the one hand, it is to allow these players to get more opportunities to show themselves, and young players can also get more opportunities to play in the Chinese Super League and accumulate practical experience, and Shanghai Shenhua can also obtain some transfer income for the club through these transfer transactions to balance the club's finances. Shenhua also officially announced the 35-man squad for the new season, and they will attack the championship under the leadership of new coach Slutsky.