Finalize the reorganization of Portuguese foreign coach Martins + personnel, and the preparation for the new season of Wuhan Three Towns will start!

Reporter Lu Mi reports Since the end of last season, Wuhan Three Towns has been in an unknown state, with unknown holiday time, unknown access, unknown coach, and unknown future of the club. After Wuhan Three Towns was not included in the list of the first batch of arrears settlement clubs, the club and the city communicated many times on operational issues, and finally completed the arrears settlement work in a short period of time, made up for the arrears of two months this year, and resolved the international lawsuit.

After the official announcement that Rodriguez would no longer be the head coach, Wuhan Three Towns immediately chose the latter in terms of domestic coach Chen Yang and foreign coaches, and Portuguese Felipe Martins will become the coach of the new season. All this also means that Wuhan Three Towns has started the work of the new season. Of course, in the context of the inevitable loss of a large number of personnel, Wuhan Three Towns will strive to recall some Hubei players to enrich the squad for the new season.

On December 23, the long-dormant Wuhan Three Towns issued two official messages in succession, announcing that the team officially started winter training, and also thanked all those who worked side by side to tide over the difficulties when the club was in deep trouble, and made great contributions to the club's access work next season and the future of professional football in Wuhan, Hubei. These two pieces of news also revealed two key pieces of information, the first is that after the club appeared in the second batch of arrears list, the problem of access to the new season has been basically resolved. Secondly, the preparation of the first team has officially begun, and the relevant plans have been introduced and implemented one by one.

"With the care and support of relevant provincial and municipal parties and all walks of life, on the afternoon of December 23, the Wuhan Three Towns team successfully assembled at the Optics Valley Football Training Base and officially started the preparation for the 2025 season." Wuhan Three Towns Club said.After the end of last season, the club has not finalized the first team holiday time, mainly because the change of manager has not been determined, and secondly, the club has a salary arrears problem, which directly affects access.

Wuhan Three Towns was not one of the clubs that had been cleared by the Football Association when it released the first list of clubs to settle their debts, as the clubs had as many as 11 unresolved FIFA lawsuits, and at the same time owed wages until 31 October. The attitude of most players is that the club will not sign the confirmation form if they do not make up the salary arrears within the promised time. Therefore, in the past half a month, the pressure on the three towns of Wuhan has been enormous. In this process, the province, the city and the Municipal Sports Bureau have been maintaining relatively smooth communication with the club, and the question of "whether to save or not" has already been given a positive answer, but many details need to be further implemented.

With the support of provincial and municipal departments, Wuhan Three Towns made up two months' arrears of wages for players this year on the 15th of this month, and before the 20th, 11 international lawsuits were settled one after another. Therefore, the club also appeared in the list of the second batch of clubs that have completed the settlement of debts announced by the Chinese Football Association. The issue of access seems to have been solved. In the future, the club will continue to survive in the form of funding from the Sports Bureau.

This was followed by the work of the first team. In November, the club officially announced the departure of last season's head coach Ricardo Rodriguez. In the free time of the commander, the winter training work has not been carried out. After receiving the support of the Municipal Sports Bureau, there are two directions for the selection of the handsome position, one is the domestic coach Chen Yang, and the other is to continue to invite foreign coaches. At the beginning of 2024, the Wuhan Sports Bureau, which funded the company, once wanted to use local coaches, but later it was led by the original management of the club and decided to continue to use foreign coaches.

In the new season, Chen Yang, who was originally very popular, finally missed the chance, according to the Portuguese media "Record",Portuguese coach Felipe Martins will take up his post at Wuhan Three Towns in January next year on a season-long contract. He will also travel to China with a brand new technical team, with four other coaches all Portuguese, including assistant coaches, goalkeeper coaches and strength and conditioning coaches.

After the head coach was confirmed, the first team officially started training on the 23rd, and it was also announced that the three towns officially started preparations for the new season. It's just that among the assembled personnel, the main force of last season basically did not show up. They either have expired contracts or are already planning to leave. Such as Liu Dianzuo, Tao Qianglong and other international players, and Liu Ruofan, Zhang Xiaobin and other players have found a suitable home.

The reorganization of the personnel structure is an important task at this stage of the surviving three towns. The reporter also learned that the new season of Wuhan Three Towns will convene a group of Hubei players to come back to play, for example, Qingdao Manatee player Long Wei and Cangzhou Lions player Zheng Kaimu are very close to joining, and the club is also negotiating with Chen Zhechao. furthermoreWuhan Three Towns U21 team, which just won the U21 league championship not long ago, may also have players called up to the first teamAfter all, some of their players also played in the first team last season.

After the survival problem is temporarily solved, the Wuhan Sports Bureau will also lead the team to develop in the direction of localization and youth, and strive to make the three towns live a different color.