A focus battle in the Chinese Super League that ended last night, Guangzhou lost 1-0 to Beijing Guoan, and Zheng Zhi's coaching debut ended in a loss. In this game, guangzhou team all-Chinese class played, not only no foreign aid, but also the absence of all naturalized players, but also related to the club's salary arrears.
Guangzhou has 6 naturalized players such as Gaulat, Axon, Luo Guofu, Jiang Guangtai, Fernando and Alain this season, except for Axon and Jiang Guangtai, who can only register as foreign aides.
Since September this year, the Guangzhou team was exposed to the problem of unpaid wages, and Gaulat then took the initiative to terminate the contract with the club and immediately returned to Brazil. The second naturalized player to terminate his contract with Guangzhou is Axon, who also gave up his high salary and recently returned to Brazil from Guangzhou.
Both Fernando and Alain are also in Brazil, and neither has yet terminated their contract with Guangzhou, nor does they play in the Chinese Super League. The refusal of two other naturalized players, Luo Guofu and Jiang Guangtai, to enter the Guangzhou division with the team was related to the lack of salary.
Today, Chengdu Business Daily revealed in the report that the annual salary of the Guangzhou team to these naturalized players, including Gaulat 13 million euros, Alain and Axon are both 10 million euros, Fernando 8 million euros, Luo Guofu 5 million euros, Jiang Guangtai 3 million euros, a total of 49 million euros, converted into 350 million yuan.
At the same time, the Guangzhou team gave these naturalized players a transfer fee, salary and settlement fee of up to 870 million yuan in 2019. Now that they are not paid, it is understandable that these naturalized players refuse to play in the Chinese Super League.
The main concern of the outside world is that it will be difficult for naturalized players to play for the national football team. Before returning to Brazil, Axon wrote a letter promising that he would always be ready to fight for the Chinese team, and would return as long as there was a call-up, and also stressed that he was a Chinese.
Judging from Axon's words, he announced that he would not retire his nationality, but how to maintain his status after returning to Brazil is also a big question, there is no ball to play before the start of the national football round of 12, and it is difficult to be called up.