Affected by the international epidemic and the relevant policies issued by the Football Association this season, many Chinese Super League clubs have encountered unprecedented difficulties this season, including 2 Chinese Super League giants - Guangzhou and Beijing Guoan.
Although the club has stopped paying salaries since October, Guangzhou has returned to the Chinese Super League after the restart of the league. With no pay to claim and all Brazilian naturalized players left the team, Guangzhou still achieved 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in the second stage of the Chinese Super League, ranking second in the league table.
I have to say that although the club's prospects are very unoptimistic, the Guangzhou team led by Zheng Zhi can have such a performance in the league, which is very admirable.
Compared with Guangzhou, Beijing Guoan's results in the second stage of the league were completely unsatisfactory, and Guoan won only 1 game after 5 rounds of the league. The poor record and the absence of many key players show that the current national security is in an unprecedented predicament.
At a time when the team is in internal and external difficulties, there are also many negative news about the Guoan Club. Earlier, it was reported that the two big players of the Guoan team, Zhang Xizhe and Yu Dabao, will transfer and leave the team next season.
In addition, recently some Beijing fans have also rumored that Li Ming, the general manager of Guoan Club, is no longer in Beijing and will not renew his contract with Guoan Club at the end of the year; Zhang Xizhe, the core of the midfield, will renew his contract with Guoan next year, and Yu Yang will transfer to Tianjin next season.
Although these anecdotal rumors have noses and eyes, they are basically "absurd believers".
First of all, Li Ming is indeed not in Beijing, and he is currently in the Netherlands with his son Li Sirong. Considering that the international epidemic situation has become more and more severe recently, Li Ming may not be able to return to the club in 1-2 months. That is to say, before the end of this season's Chinese Super League, Li Ming will definitely not be able to come back.
Still, that doesn't mean Li Ming will leave Guoan, as his contract with Guoan Club doesn't end until early 2023. Therefore, unless Li Ming himself voluntarily resigns, he will continue to stay in Guoan next year.
Zhang's news is even more unreliable, because he just completed the renewal of his contract with Guoan Club in January last year, and his contract with Guoan will not expire until the end of 2024. Of course, we can't completely rule out the possibility of Zhang Xizhe leaving the team next season, after all, the current Guoan is no longer the Guoan who aspired to win the championship 2 years ago.
Regarding the situation of Yu Yang, the current national security defender has indeed not renewed his contract with the club. It is reported that at present, he is indeed looking for a new home for himself, and the possibility of joining the Tianjin team is not impossible, because Yu Yang is originally a Tianjin native, and it is completely understandable that he will fall back to the roots at the end of his career.
Of course, Guoan has not given up on renewing the contract with Yu Yang, and recently the club has provided Yu Yang with an offer to renew the contract, but Yu Yang has not yet made a formal response.
Guoan, which is in a turbulent period, has exposed so much negative news in the closing stage of the league, and the club should have someone to stand up in time to appease the fans. However, in the club's most difficult moments, the general manager was on holiday abroad, a professional ethic that is indeed very rare in today's Chinese Super League clubs.
The club's management is so unprofessional, how can the team perform well in the league? Here, we would also like to appeal to Zhou Jinhui, chairman of Guoan Club, to pay more attention to the Guoan team, because when Sinobo took over Guoan, you once said that you wanted to build Guoan into the best team in the Chinese Super League...