Reporter Wang Wei reported that just when the outside world speculated that Evergrande would completely withdraw from the football circle, Guangzhou Football Club announced the latest salary standard on February 16, which shows that Evergrande Group will not give up control of the Guangzhou team at present. The newspaper recently learned that Evergrande also holds another deck of cards, and registered a new football club in Tianhe District of Guangzhou on December 17 last year, named Guangzhou Hengyue Football Club, which plans to compete in the Chinese Champions League mainly with Evergrande football school players.
Guangzhou Football Club issued the "Notice on" to the team on February 16, and the documents show that the player establishment is divided into four queues, namely the first team (30 people), the reserve team (20 people), the echelon team (25 people), and the women's football team (25 people). Among them, the 30 members of the first team are divided into four levels: excellent main force, main force, main substitute and substitute, with a starting salary of 60,000 yuan, of which the number of outstanding main staff is 3 people, and the cap annual salary is 600,000 yuan before tax. For the queue below the reserve team, the starting salary line is 36,000 yuan, of which the cap line of the main force of the reserve team is 300,000 yuan, and the cap line of the main force of the echelon is 144,000 yuan. The cap line of the main force of women's football is 300,000 yuan.
According to the detailed calculation of the salary of the first team, the reserve team, the echelon team and the women's football team of Guangzhou Football Club, the total annual salary of the teams at all levels is 14.556 million yuan, of which the total salary of the men's first team in one year is 8.28 million yuan, the total annual salary of the reserve team is 2.16 million yuan, the total salary of the echelon is 1.536 million yuan, and the women's football team is 2.58 million yuan. The total annual salary of 100 players from guangzhou football club's four teams is 14.556 million yuan.
As we all know, after falling into operational difficulties since the second half of last year, Guangzhou Football Club has been in arrears of wages. However, the announcement of the new salary limit standard seems to be releasing news to the outside world: Evergrande can still afford to invest 15 million a year, and it is not necessary to completely abandon the operation of the football club, and other parties want to take over the Guangzhou team is not unconditional.
For the current Guangzhou team, no matter who will take over in the future, living is the bottom line, no one wants to see the tragedy of the dissolution of the Jiangsu team repeat, "The key to football is to do things in accordance with the laws of football, and at the same time to do professional things by professional people." If you can do this, the rest is not difficult. A person in the Guangzhou football circle said in an interview with reporters.
It is worth noting that in the salary restriction notice, Guangzhou Football Club also put forward such a slogan, "To build Evergrande Football School into the cradle of Chinese football stars, Guangzhou Team should do a good job as a cradle platform." The reporter found that in addition to the Guangzhou club hoping that more Evergrande Football School players will be trained, Evergrande Football School is also building a new platform at the same time.
Judging from the recent information, on December 17 last year, when the Guangzhou team participated in the championship competition under the most difficult circumstances, Evergrande Group established a new football club in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, based on the football school: Guangzhou Hengyue Football Club Co., Ltd., registered at No. 78 Huangpu Avenue West, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, and this address is where Evergrande Center is located. The legal representative of Guangzhou Hengyue Football Club is Li Benquan, and Li Benquan's other identity is the current vice president of Evergrande Football School.
According to the registration information, the business scope of Guangzhou Hengyue Football Club includes: sports agent services, sports protection organizations, sports competition organizations, sports venue facilities operation (excluding high-risk sports). From the perspective of understanding, Guangzhou Hengyue Football Club will form a team mainly from Evergrande Football School in the 2003-2004 age group, and intends to participate in the 2022 season of the Chinese Champions League, and will gradually launch an impact on higher-level leagues in the future.
Obviously, whether it is not to give up the Chinese Super League platform of Guangzhou Football Club or to form a new platform of Guangzhou Hengyue Football Club, Evergrande wants to find a way for the players trained in Evergrande Football School in the past 10 years.
Evergrande Football School was founded in 2012, with an initial investment of 1.1 billion yuan and a cumulative investment of nearly 3 billion yuan so far. In recent seasons, evergrande football school players have begun to emerge in leagues at all levels, selected 481 times for the national team of all ages, just this past 2021 season, a total of 41 players were selected for the first team and reserve team of Guangzhou team, and 29 players entered overseas and other Chinese Super League and Chinese League A clubs.
In the men's football team, Tan Kaiyuan, Ling Jie, Perlman Jiang, Hou Yu, Wang Shilong, Eiffelding, Li Jiaheng and Elseshiddin and others have flashed in the Chinese Super League and the national brand echelon. In terms of women's football, in addition to the outbreak of Zhang Linyan, who was trained by Evergrande Football School, in the Asian Cup of Women's Football, in the 2022 National 2007 Women's Football Elite Player Training Camp held in Shantou from February 18 to March 3, Evergrande Football School had a total of 4 people selected by Evergrande Football School, Zhao Caiyu, Zhang Shang mingzhu, Li Shirong and Lai Zijun.
Although the current stock reform situation of guangzhou team is still confusing, Evergrande is ready to grasp the two platforms of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese Champions League with both hands to make the youth training players they have trained get better training, from the perspective of youth training, this move is worth affirming, but with their latest salary standards, Guangzhou team's road to relegation in the Chinese Super League in the new season will not be smooth.