Patton has been officially announced to join the Liaoning team for more than 72 hours, but he is still unable to represent the Liaoning team in CBA games. Despite previously following the Liaoning team to Beijing and also going to the next away game against Jilin, he faces the dilemma of having no ball to play. This is because he has not yet been registered on the CBA official website. Simply put, Liaoning's materials are not yet complete, which once again highlights the amateurish nature of Liaoning's management, especially in terms of foreign player operations over the past two seasons. Many fans spread rumors that the CBA company was on holiday on January 1st, preventing Liaoning from signing foreign players. However, the holiday on January 1st has already ended, and the CBA company is working as usual today. Why hasn't foreign player Patton been able to register yet? Therefore, the problem does not lie with the CBA company.
As for why the procedures are incomplete, there are many minor channels of information. But this is no longer important. What matters is that Patton cannot play for Liaoning now, and when he can take the field depends on when the Liaoning management can complete his subsequent procedures. It is the first time this season that a team like Liaoning has officially announced a new foreign player but has not been able to deliver the procedures to the CBA company within 72 hours. The amateurish nature of Liaoning's management is reflected in this aspect.
This kind of amateurish operation is not only reflected in the simple preparation of such procedures but also in their judgment of foreign players. Now Liaoning is limited by its big foreign aid, and many fans think that Liaoning should not have given up on Morand and chosen Aqiu'er. In fact, this is hindsight, because Morand's performance in the CBA semi-finals and finals last season was indeed very average, coupled with the increased playing time for foreign players in the new season, it was a trend for Liaoning to pick a foreign player with both offensive and defensive capabilities. So giving up Morand and choosing Aqiu'er was absolutely the right move at the time.
The most amateurish thing Liaoning did with Morand was not failing to sign him, but failing to retain his priority renewal rights. They let him go for free, allowing Morand to freely contact other teams without Liaoning's knowledge. Moreover, after Morand left, Liaoning received nothing. If Liaoning had retained Morand's priority renewal rights at the time, even if Guangdong wanted to sign him, they would have had to negotiate with Liaoning.
When Morand signed, Liaoning's big foreign aid issue had already become prominent. If Liaoning had known about this and happened to be dissatisfied with their own big foreign aid's performance and prepared to replace them, they would have had the time and speed to contact Morand again and bring him back. However, due to the lack of priority renewal rights, whether it was Guangdong or other teams contacting Morand, they didn't have to bother with Liaoning at all. This led to Liaoning's inadequate response, resulting in the current situation where Aqiu'er has not performed well and they want to replace the big foreign aid, but Morand has already been signed away.
The newly signed Patton will not surpass Morand in terms of potential, as he is also a blue-collar worker with no inside offensive ability. Therefore, Liaoning is now back to the previous route of big foreign aid like Morand. They are no longer betting on big foreign aid with both offensive and defensive capabilities but are content with doing defense and being a blue-collar worker. If Liaoning had obtained Morand's priority renewal rights at the time, they would not be so passive in the issue of big foreign aid now.