On the evening of March 6, 2022, Beijing time, Yangcheng Evening News released a message saying that Evergrande Group had ordered that Guangzhou must participate in the AFC Champions League in the new season. Moreover, the current Guangzhou second team will be sent to participate. This also means that in the group stage of the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou team may create the biggest and most tragic case in the history of the club in the AFC Champions League. Therefore, there are many fans who do not understand this, on the one hand, there will be tragedies, on the other hand, it will also cost millions of dollars, why not cancel their AFC Champions League journey directly like Changchun Yatai?
Before the Yangcheng Evening News sent this news, I thought that Evergrande should play the AFC Champions League and must send the top students selected by Evergrande Football School to participate. As a result, with the news released by the Cantonese media, it is really "coinciding". I think the reason why Evergrande was able to make this decision is entirely based on two aspects.
First, Evergrande Group's next focus on football operations is not in the club itself, but in Evergrande Football School. For a school, practice is the only test of truth. Within Evergrande Football School, outstanding students have the opportunity to participate in the AFC Champions League and compete with the top clubs in Asia, what could be more attractive than this? This measure is not only as simple as 11 people appearing on the AFC Champions League, but also will further have a great positive effect on the management, teaching methods and methods of Evergrande Football School;
Second, a few days ago, Guangzhou Club released a message about the team's investment promotion, which involves sponsors and chest advertisements, etc., and the name of the sponsor can appear in the Chinese Super League, the AFC Champions League, and the FA Cup. Some fans believe that Evergrande will spend millions of yuan to play the AFC Champions League, and there will be "tragic cases". However, do you think that if the Guangzhou team succeeds in attracting business, how much is the chest advertisement worth in the three group stages of the AFC Champions League?
So far, don't care about Evergrande's previous scenery, now more curtains, skinny camels are bigger than horses, whether it is the golden dollar football period, or tightening the silver root, Evergrande has always been "going with the flow", rather than driving in the opposite direction. At the beginning of the Golden Dollar Football, Evergrande did set a precedent, but at that time, even if there was no Evergrande, there would be another large enterprise to implement the Golden Dollar Football. Just like Alibaba's Jack Ma is the same, for example, without Jack Ma, according to the development trend of the times, there may be no Taobao, but there will definitely be "this treasure and that treasure" and "Liu Yun or Li Yun", because these are the products of the times.
As a fan, do you think Evergrande sent the second team to play in the AFC Champions League, is this strategy correct?