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After Shandong Taishan won the Chinese Super League championship this season three rounds in advance, the suspense of the Chinese Super League championship group was also broken. However, this does not mean that the championship competition is not unattractive. In the context of the share reform of Chinese football clubs, the former eight-time champion Guangzhou team is now working hard to survive.
In the match against Hebei on the evening of the 29th, Guangzhou won 2-0 against the opponent, winning two consecutive games while remaining unbeaten in five rounds, still ranking second in the league table. Although the team has no desire and no demand, and even has been owed wages for a long time, the Guangzhou team still played a highlight performance. The outside world believes that this has a lot to do with the "hope" of the Guangzhou team.
As we all know, Evergrande Group, the previous investor of guangzhou team, has no time to take care of the football business because of the financial crisis. Xu Jiayin, the boss of Evergrande Group, will hold a "mobilization meeting for resuming work and production" every once in a while, but in addition to always proposing that "Evergrande must guarantee the handover of the building, and employees are not allowed to lie flat", Boss Xu has not mentioned football.
After a long period of unpaid wages, the departure of naturalized players, and the hasty assembly before the start of the league, the prospects of such a team should obviously not be optimistic. However, even if there is no longer Xu Jiayin's "supervision", the Guangzhou team has not been lying flat, and to a certain extent, it is still full of vitality. For example, in the victory over Hebei, 18-year-old Ling Jie opened the record for Guangzhou, which was also the first league goal of his career. Guangzhou's second goal came from 20-year-old Tan Kaiyuan. The two post-00s goal scores made people see the hope of the Guangzhou team.
Ling Jie scored
Tan Kaiyuan scored
For the Guangzhou team, the hope comes not only from the emergence of young players, but also from the positive news from potential new owners. On the afternoon of December 27, at the 12th Party Congress of Guangzhou, Li Chuyuan, a party representative of Guangzhou City, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., said such a paragraph in an interview with reporters.
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We are only interested in getting involved in football, and we have not taken too specific measures, but the government, including the Football Association, the Sports Bureau, and our friends in the football community, hope that Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group will play this role, and Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group also has this intention.
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Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group intends to reunite with the cause of football in Guangzhou, and as soon as this statement comes out, it can be said that it is imaginative. At present, the prospects of the two Chinese Super League clubs backed by real estate companies in Guangzhou are not clear, as a large state-owned enterprise with strong financial strength in Yangcheng, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical's statement is a guarantee for the future of Guangzhou football. In terms of strength, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group is a large state-owned enterprise with nearly 30 listed companies and member companies, ranking 129th in the 2021 China Top 500 Enterprises Ranking, and ranking among the world's top 500 this year. Emotionally speaking, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical and Guangzhou football are also not shallow, in October 1984, Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Factory signed a contract with the Guangzhou Municipal Sports Commission to jointly organize the Guangzhou football team on the condition of sponsoring 200,000 yuan per year, setting a precedent for a national enterprise to undertake excellent sports teams.
From 1984 to 1992, Guangzhou football experienced 8 years of baiyun mountain era, with the opening of professionalization, the sun god took over the banner of baiyun mountain, after the professional league, Guangzhou baiyun mountain organized the team to compete in the second division and the first B league for three seasons in 1998, and the team was disbanded at the end of 2000. At the beginning of 2006, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group returned to football and directly took over the Guangzhou team in the name of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group, they acquired 90% of the shares of the team, established Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Football Club, and successfully overtook as the champion of the Chinese League One in the 2007 season. In February 2010, the Chinese Football Association punished Guangzhou Pharmaceutical and Chengdu Sheffield United for 2006 match-fixing, the two teams were directly relegated, and then a real estate developer named Xu Jiayin spent 100 million yuan to take over the team from Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group, which was then regarded as a mess, and gave the team a new name guangzhou Evergrande.
Suddenly, Evergrande has been on fire for ten years, and now it is the turn of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group to prepare for football again, but the question is, is it ready to marry Guangzhou team or Guangzhou City team? Wang Laoji, a beverage brand owned by Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, even launched a vote on Weibo. Judging from the voting results, most Guangzhou fans still hope that guangzhou team will drink Wang Laoji to "continue life".
From the source point of view, it is logical for Guangzhou Medicine to take over the Guangzhou team, after all, the Guangzhou City team is the Shenyang Sea Lion from the root. However, it is also an indisputable fact that guangzhou players have high annual salaries and large club debts, not to mention the stadiums and football schools under construction, and the difficulty of solving the problem is far greater than that of Guangzhou City.
Because of this, as soon as Li Chuyuan's interview came out, there was immediately a voice of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical selling the team for 100 million and then spending billions or even tens of billions to bring the team back. Therefore, from the perspective of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, whether from the perspective of investment or from the perspective of public relations, things must not be done that way! Having the original debtor take on all the debt, at zero cost or at the lowest possible cost, is probably the only solution they accept. In addition, there are also rumors that Guangzhou Pharmaceutical is not facing two choices, but two in one, that is, the integration and reorganization of Guangzhou team and Guangzhou City, at this time, there is a problem of trade-offs, and this problem is not only the Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group.