In 2022, the Chinese Super League will be completely decoupled from the "golden dollar football", and many clubs have begun to change dramatically. On February 26, the domestic media revealed that the Guangzhou team had a new dynamic: the vast majority of the main forces left to find a new home. Owner Xu Jiayin decided to run the team for 15 million a year. The fans sighed: seeing him rise to a tall building, seeing him collapse...
Wei Shihao
Guangzhou Evergrande, as the 8th champion of the Chinese Super League, was once the most "trench" club in the Chinese Super League. In 2019, the operating costs of Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Club reached 2.9 billion yuan, and the loss was as high as 1.94 billion yuan. That was the last madness of the Chinese Super League, and after 3 years, the Chinese Super League fell into a full-scale crisis, and Guangzhou Evergrande bore the brunt of it.
Tan Kaiyuan (left)
Not long ago, the Guangzhou team introduced a salary plan: only 3 people in the first team can get (before tax) 600,000 annual salary, 6 people can get an annual salary of 420,000 before tax, 6 people can get an annual salary of 300,000 before tax, and 15 people can get an annual salary of 144,000 before tax.
Zheng Zhi
After the termination of Axon, Gaulat, Alain, Luo Guofu and Fernando, the salary restriction order of Guangzhou means that many players will leave. Player and coach Zheng Zhi will inevitably leave, Huang Bowen, Wei Shihao, Liu Dianzuo and other international players will leave the team, Tan Kaiyuan and Ling Jie produced by the football school, the future is also full of variables...
Xu Jiayin
Domestic media pointed out that Evergrande boss Xu Jiayin set the annual operating cost of the Guangzhou team at 15 million yuan - you must know that 3 years ago, the team's operating cost was as high as 2.9 billion yuan! From 2.9 billion to 15 million, the invested funds plummeted by 95%, and the "giants" became "civilians" overnight.
2018 stats: 335 club employees
15 million yuan a year, which means that the daily operating budget is only 40,000 yuan. There are 30 players in the first team, 20 in the reserve team, 25 in the echelon, 25 in the women's football team, and 100 players alone. Coupled with the coaching staff, club logistics personnel, management personnel, the total number of people we record as 200 people (according to 2018 data, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Club has a total of 335 people), on average, each employee only has a budget of 200 yuan, which is still before tax.
Evergrande Football School
If it is not broken, the collapse of the Guangzhou team may mean the germ of hope. With the thorough reshuffle of the Guangzhou team, evergrande football school, which has been established for 10 years, will "supply blood" to the Guangzhou team. For young players, history has pushed them ahead of time to the Chinese Super League, which is not an opportunity.
Can the Guangzhou team be reborn?
In the past year, the Guangzhou team has emerged outstanding talents such as Ling Jie and Tan Kaiyuan, which makes people shine. This is the fruit of Evergrande Football School, in the Chinese Super League in 2022, will there be any surprises?