On the evening of May 2, Beijing time, Guangzhou announced the club's first-team roster for the new season in the Chinese Super League. In this list of 35 people, only 6 people are well known to Guangzhou fans, namely Jiang Guangtai, Wei Shihao, Yang Liyu, Yan Dinghao, Wu Shaocong, and Liu Shibo. The remaining 29 people are all from Evergrande Football School.
In February this year, Evergrande Group said that it would not quit, but would firmly continue to do a good job in football. Evergrande has also set new strategic goals to develop young players as the main direction for the future. Sure enough, the first team roster of the guangzhou team in the new season has ushered in a huge change.
Ling Jie, Hou Yu, Wang Shilong, Eiffelding, Cai Mingmin, Zheng Shengxiong and other leaders of Evergrande Football School have all appeared in the list of Guangzhou team's new season to call up the Chinese Super League. They all have experience in the Chinese Super League, China League One, THE FA Cup and even the AFC Champions League. In addition, the youngest Lee Seung-hyun is only 17 years old.
According to statistics, the average age of the 29 football school players in Guangzhou is 20.27 years old. If you count Wei Shihao, Yan Dinghao and several other players who stayed in the team, the average age of the first team is only 21.12 years old, and it should be known that the average age of the Guangzhou team last season was a rare 25.6 years old. In one year, the average age of the Guangzhou team has dropped by more than 4 years, setting a record for the youngest team in the 12 years since the establishment of the Guangzhou team, and breaking the historical record of the youngest team in the Chinese Super League.
It is reported that the Guangzhou team will also implement a new pre-tax salary plan in the new season. The annual salaries of the 29 Evergrande Football School players in the first team range from 60,000 yuan to 300,000 yuan, with an average annual salary of 180,000 yuan. Although in the new season, the "little devil"," the Guangzhou team is considered to be a big favorite for relegation, but if the Guangzhou team can be relegated or further, it will not only have ice-breaking value for the Chinese Super League, which is not successful and lacking successors, but also will become a positive demonstration to promote the long-term healthy development of the Chinese Super League, which is no less significant than winning the eight championships of the Chinese Super League and the double of the AFC Champions League.