The guangzhou team fell apart and arrived as expected.
Under the strict salary restriction order, the first-team members have left, and now, even the soul of the team, Zheng Zhi, must say goodbye.
According to the foreign media "Wild East Football", Zheng Zhi, who is also a player and coach of guangzhou, is about to join Shenzhen, and the official announcement is expected to be released after the end of the World Preliminary Round of 12.
Such news is easy to break, because everyone knows what Zheng Zhi means to Guangzhou football.
Zheng Zhi, born in 1980, is a living fossil of Chinese football and an irreplaceable mainstay of the Evergrande Dynasty.
Zheng Zhi, who has stayed in Charlton and Celtic, joined Guangzhou Evergrande in 2010 and played 315 games for the team, witnessing the full peak of the Golden Yuan.
From the Chinese First Division to the Chinese Super League, from the historic breakthrough of the AFC Champions League to the glory of the eight champions of the Chinese Super League, Zheng Zhi has always been with the Guangzhou team and has become the totem of the team.
Last season, Evergrande Group exploded, guangzhou team was struggling, it was Zheng Zhi who stuck to the city in difficulties, and led the team to successfully play the whole season with the role of player and coach.
However, no matter how strong the feelings are, it is difficult to beat the cruelty of reality, when Evergrande said that it only uses 15 million to run the club for a year, when the salary has plunged sharply, no matter how great the legend, it can only find a way out.
According to media news, Liao Lisheng basically decided to join Shandong Taishan, the two main players of the Guangzhou team's backline will join the harbor, while He Chao, Deng Hanwen, Liu Dianzuo, Gao Zhunyi and other players will train with the promotion team Wuhan Sanzhen.
Overnight, the trees fell and scattered, and Zheng Zhi chose to "choose good birds to live in", which is really normal.
Evergrande can't afford Zheng Zhi's tens of millions of annual salary, and one shot and two scatters will become the final ending.
For Zheng Zhi, going to Shenzhen is almost the best ending - from 2001 to 2004, he played for Shenzhen Jianlibao, and won the first year of the Chinese Super League with the team. Also in Shenzhen, Zheng Zhi became the youngest Chinese footballer in history.
Returning to the Shenzhen team now means that Zheng Zhiming completed the meeting with his mentor Li Zhangsu and his former teammate Gao Lin, and continued to compete in the Chinese Super League as a player and coach, which not only won a good reputation of "returning to his hometown", but also conducive to achieving a complete transition from player to coach.
Zheng Zhi found a good home, but the future of guangzhou team is full of confusion, the biggest possibility is that all the first-team players last season left for a thorough shuffle. In fact, many players have given up their salaries to terminate their contracts.
In the 2022 season, the team of Guangzhou team competing in the Chinese Super League can basically be determined as the young players of Evergrande Football School, and the competitiveness can be imagined. Now that Zheng Zhi has left, the club has chosen Liu Zhiyu to lead the team, and the upper limit can be imagined.
According to the reports of relevant reporters, with the expansion of the Chinese Super League to 18 teams, the relegation quota in the 2022 season is likely to be adjusted to 2.5, and with the current situation of Guangzhou team, relegation has become a high probability event.
March 1 is the 12th anniversary of Evergrande Group's entry into Guangzhou football, compared with the peak of the 250 million euros in a single season, the current scene of guangzhou team is quite ironic.
From the 2015 season to the 2021 season, the total loss of Guangzhou team reached 7.6 billion, and the financial report shows that in the 2018 season, Guangzhou Evergrande's pre-tax salary reached 1.452 billion yuan. From 1.5 billion to 15 million, there is much sadness hidden behind the collapse.
The Jinyuan Dynasty has become a thing of the past, all the glory has turned into history, going around, the Guangzhou team is back to the original point, and where the future will go, no one knows the answer.
On the same day, the AFC announced changchun Yatai's withdrawal from the 2022 AFC Champions League, and the clouds of Chinese football seem to have no signs of dissipating.
Under such a big environment, it is not easy for the Chinese Super League team to "survive", the team's soul is just a "small episode", guangzhou team, first of all, can see tomorrow, it is possible to imagine the future.