In the past few years, the most developed area of Chinese football is undoubtedly Guangdong. This important province in southern China has three Chinese Super League teams – Guangzhou Evergrande (now renamed Guangzhou), Guangzhou R&F (now renamed Guangzhou City) and Shenzhen Kaisa (actively renamed Shenzhen).
It can be said that these 3 teams have created their own glory in different eras, especially guangzhou, they have won 8 Chinese Super League championships and 2 AFC Champions League titles.
However, with the bursting of the "golden dollar football" bubble and the decline of the domestic real estate industry, these three teams have now reached the most difficult stage in history.
Needless to say, in recent months, the news about the Guangzhou team and their club's parent company Evergrande Group has been well known, and the huge debt has caused the Guangzhou club to encounter an unprecedented crisis.
The situation of the Shenzhen team is not much better. According to reports, the debt of shenzhen clubs has now reached 3.5 billion yuan. Kaisa Group, the club's parent company, has no good solution to this.
After all, most domestic companies are not having a good time now. Such a big financial hole cannot be filled casually through financing and stock expansion.
Under such circumstances, the operating funds of shenzhen clubs in the new season have been drastically reduced, and players have not only been asked to cut salaries, but even the team can only rent ordinary buses as transportation to play in other cities.
Compared with the Guangzhou team and the Shenzhen team, the situation of Guangzhou City is still relatively optimistic, and their debt is only about 300 million yuan. Therefore, the club's share reform work is still going relatively smoothly. As early as last month, R&F Group and GAC Group had reached an agreement on the transfer of shares.
Until now, however, the issue of the club's share transfer has not really been implemented, mainly because the two companies have not yet reached a consensus on the team's salary arrears in the past few months.
Therefore, Guangzhou City also announced the dissolution holiday after entering April, as for when to regroup to start preparing for the new season of the Chinese Super League, the club has not given a clear time point.
At the same time, several of the main players of the Guangzhou City team have also recently announced their departures, and the active international Tang Miao and Yang Xiaotian and Hu Ruibao, who just joined the team last season, have switched to the Cangzhou Lions and the New Chinese Super League Chengdu Rongcheng respectively.
After losing a number of key players, Guangzhou City, which was once expected to make a difference in the new season, is now likely to become a relegation team.
Compared with Guangzhou City, the shenzhen team, which is more indebted, has recently completed a regrouping and traveled to Meizhou to play a warm-up match with Meizhou Hakka, a new chinese super league team.
However, perhaps because the team's salary arrears problem has not been solved for a long time, coupled with the uncertain future of the club, the performance of Shenzhen players in this warm-up game is really difficult to compliment. This Chinese Super League local team last season actually lost 0-4 to the Meizhou Hakka team, a young brother of the same province who had just been promoted to the Chinese Super League.
And this score result is also a portrayal of the real situation of these two clubs now. According to reports, none of the 4 teams newly promoted to the Chinese Super League this season has a problem with unpaid wages.
Therefore, the players of the Meizhou Hakka first team also played hard in the game. And this also seems to indicate that in the new season, it will press the three big brothers of Guangzhou, Guangzhou City and Shenzhen to become the new leader of Nanyue football...