The Chinese Super League has entered a harsh winter in the past two years, and more than half of the teams have wage arrears, which also makes many fans worry about whether the Chinese Super League can continue to be maintained. Although the start of the new season of the Chinese Super League in 2022 has not yet been announced, many teams have already begun to prepare for the new season, but for the eight-time champion Guangzhou team, their new season may be more difficult than expected. Due to the collective economic crisis of the parent company Guangzhou Evergrande, the Guangzhou team has been in arrears for half a year, and several naturalized players have also terminated their contracts.
Not long ago, the Football Association issued the strictest salary restriction in history, stipulating that the maximum salary of domestic players should not exceed 3 million. Under the circumstance that guangzhou football club was not smooth in the stock reform negotiations, Xu Jiayin made a major decision, requiring 15 million to operate the team for one year. 15 million to maintain a Chinese Super League team for a full year of operation is very difficult, in this case, Guangzhou team had to introduce a more ruthless salary restriction order than the Football Association in the team, stipulating that the maximum salary of the team's first-line main players does not exceed 600,000 yuan, while the basic salary is 60,000 yuan, and this salary refers to pre-tax, which also means that the top salary players can only get more than 400,000 yuan at most. The Guangzhou team's salary restriction order not only frightened the fans, but also frightened the players.
According to media disclosures, Guangzhou's main players such as Huang Bowen, Mei Fang, Liu Dianzuo, Liao Lisheng, He Chao, Wei Shihao, and Yang Liyu will leave the team. The latest news shows that Liu Dianzuo, He Chao, Deng Hanwen and Gao Zhunyi have been training in the three towns of Wuhan in the Chinese Super League. Once these main players of the Guangzhou team leave the team, they will not worry about finding their next home, and several other Chinese Super League teams such as the Three Towns Team, Taishan Team, Harbor Team and so on have conducted in-depth exchanges with the Guangzhou players who are about to leave the team, basically have finalized the new contract, just waiting for the official announcement. In addition to the players, Zheng Zhi, the executive head coach of the Guangzhou team last season, also clearly informed the club that the club will no longer bring the Guangzhou team, and the player structure of the Guangzhou team next season will all be based on the evergrande football school players, and what kind of achievements they can play has also become a big attraction in the Chinese Super League next season.
The operating expenses of the Guangzhou team next season were only 15 million, and ten years ago, in the first game of the 2012 AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande won 5-1 away to Jeonbuk Hyundai, when Xu Jiayin gave the team a huge prize of 14 million yuan. In ten years, the Guangzhou team can be said to have encountered the double heaven of ice and fire, which is really not very regrettable. The veterans of the Guangzhou team left the team one by one, which also verified the famous saying in Stephen Chow's movie: "I thought that our interaction was based on feelings, and I didn't think that it was also a business!"