Although the Guangzhou team barely passed the entrance examination of the Chinese Football Association, the operational pressure of the team in the new season is still very huge. This offseason, Evergrande has lost four or five more main players, and the national youth team Eiffelding has officially announced his joining the Swedish Super League team. It can be said that now the Guangzhou team is fighting the world with the youth army.
Recently, Guangzhou Evergrande officially announced the departure of head coach Zheng Zhi, and the corresponding assistant coach Huang Bowen and technical director Fu Bo have also left the team.
After Zheng Zhi left, the Guangzhou team has also officially announced the new manager, and Zheng Zhi's successor is only 37-year-old Liu Zhiyu! Liu Zhiyu previously served as the echelon coach of Evergrande and also served as a technical analyst for the team. However, as the first-line head coach of a professional team, the pressure on Liu Zhiyu is still quite large.
37 years old as the head coach, is too young, in the Chinese Super League and China League One, some players are estimated to be older than Liu Zhiyu. In the CBA league next door, Gao Junchao, the head coach of the Jilin Northeast Tigers men's basketball team, is also very young, Gao Junchao was born in 1993 and is only 30 years old this year.
Last season, the operating cost of the Guangzhou team was less than 20 million, the highest annual salary of domestic players was only 600,000 yuan, and many main players had an annual salary of only 300,000 to 400,000 yuan. With such an annual salary structure, it is difficult to retain players. So after the end of last season, Yang Liyu, Wei Shihao, Liu Shibo, Li Yang, Yan Dinghao and other players have joined other Chinese Super League teams.
Why did Guangzhou Evergrande choose Liu Zhiyu as the head coach? Of course, it is not because he is strong, mainly because he is young and cheap, and it is said that Liu Zhiyu's annual salary is only about 100,000 yuan.
Liu Zhiyu is the youngest and lowest-paid head coach in the history of Guangzhou Evergrande. Zheng Zhi used to be a player at Evergrande, and last season he was on the verge of being called.
Zheng Zhi's last term was Cannavaro, and Cannavaro's annual salary during the Evergrande period was 12 million euros, equivalent to about 92 million yuan. Italian silver fox Lippi is the highest-paid head coach in Evergrande's history, and Lippi's highest annual salary was 2,300 euros, which is equivalent to 170 million yuan.
Lippi's annual salary is almost equivalent to 2 Cannavaros, equivalent to 1700 Liu Zhiyu.