At the beginning of the 2020 V.League season, information from Ho Chi Minh City Club wanted to recruit Lee Nguyen for 1 million USD, dominated the media. However, later, the overseas Vietnamese player himself denied being contacted by the Thong Nhat Stadium team.
Recently, Cong Phuong's team also said that they are in contact to bring their son Rivaldo back to compete in the near future. Like the Lee Nguyen case, money is not a problem for Ho Chi Minh City. But at this point, there is no confirmation information, although the Thai media is very interested in this deal.
Ho Chi Minh City's criticism of both Lee Nguyen and Rivaldo's son shows that the team's foreign player recruitment has not been as effective as expected. There has been information that the team spent a large sum of money to liquidate Viktor prodell (Sweden) even though the reason for being accepted by Ho Chi Minh City is because this striker is injured? Further, it is considered to be a familiar "trick" of hitting football.
Since Le Cong Vinh was still the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City team, this team also knows how to dominate the media. The former Vietnam national team player once left open the possibility of recruiting Van Toan and Van Thanh from HAGL. In the end, no contracts were signed.
After that, Cong Vinh recruited former Man United player Rodrigo Possebon. The Brazilian midfielder only played one practice match, then left the team due to injury in early 2018. To date, Possebon is still... unemployed.
It is known that information about the transfer is always very unpredictable. But with the continuous shortage of blockbusters or turning blockbusters into "spraybots" like in the past, Ho Chi Minh City should need a large-scale reconnaissance team to recruit truly satisfactory foreign players.
