On January 7, Beijing time, the 32-year-old international defender Mei Fang sent a text to officially bid farewell to the Guangzhou team, ending his 7-year Career in Guangzhou.
In the farewell letter, Mei Fang thanked many people, including Boss Xu and Liu Zong, as well as Guangzhou team's previous coaches Lippi, Scolari and Cannavaro.
In 2014, Mei Fang transferred from Wuhan Zall to Guangzhou Evergrande. During these seven years, Mei Fang won a total of 7 championship trophies in Guangzhou, including 1 AFC Champions League, 5 Chinese Super League champions and 1 FA Cup. His contract with Guangzhou had expired and the two sides decided not to renew it, so he left the team on a free basis.
After Kim Young-kwon and Park Ji-so left, two major foreign aid centers, Mei Fang was rarely corrected. But he has missed most of his last three seasons due to injury and has never been able to truly prove himself in Guangzhou. He has played only 18 Chinese Super League games in the last three seasons, and even made only 3 appearances this season, with only 140 minutes in total. Like Mei Fang, the contract expired, there were Zheng Zhi, Liu Dianzuo, Deng Hanwen, Huang Bowen and Liao Lisheng. If these players leave, then the salary pressure of Guangzhou will be further reduced. Some time ago, the Guangzhou team issued 20 million yuan to the players, which was only half a month's living expenses, which shows how high the operating costs of the Guangzhou team are.
Throwing off paulinho, Talisca and Cannavaro's three big contracts, Axon, Gaulat, Luo Guofu, Alain and Fernando, the five naturalized players, were released, and guangzhou saved hundreds of millions of dollars in wages a year. At present, it seems that the "slimming plan" of guangzhou team is still continuing, and the players whose contracts expire are estimated to be gone, unless they are renewed with a salary cut.