Football Season Guide

FC Seoul

In


Min-kyu Song (r att Jeonbuk) Babec (r mid Osijek) Juan Ros (r def Burirram) Ruiz (r att Seongnam) Sung-yun Gu (r gk Seoul Eland)

Out


Tae-wook Jeong (def sp Incheon) Lingard (att K released) Lucas Rodrigues da Silva (mid r released) Dugandzic (att r released) Chul-won Cheol (gk sp released)

A very poor season on the whole finishing 6th with inconsistent form throughout. They at least look in good shape to advance in the ACLE but on the whole the previous season was one to forget. They have lost key foreign players Lingard and Yazan, but recruitment shows some promise. Manager's position was up for discussion after a poor year but the club have stuck with the coach for the time being. FC Seoul were tipped for title contenders last season and ended up disappointing. Hard to see them making the leap to be considered that again this season but there's no doubt they underperformed last season. Strengths - The club are well backed financially and the squad of good quality. Things haven't clicked for many of the players but if it does they have one of the best Xi in the league. Weaknesses - Manager will be under pressure from the off and has yet to fulfill the team's potential. The early season ACLE games could prevent them from building momentum in the league.

Target


ACLE qualification will be the aim but an outside hope of mounting a title challenge.