In recent seasons, many Chinese Super League teams have been reducing operating funds, and spending 100 million or 200 million a season is quite good. Like last season's Guangzhou team (Evergrande), it only has 15 million operating capital. Many years ago, when Guangzhou Evergrande won 5-1 away at Jeonbuk Hyundai in the AFC Champions League, the winning prize alone reached 14 million yuan. If there is no comparison, there is no harm.
Recently, Bai Guohua, a well-known media person, wrote an article recalling the Evergrande Dynasty. Bai Guohua said: Guangzhou Evergrande has invested a total of 16.7 billion yuan in football in the past decade, including 3 billion yuan from Evergrande Football School.
When Boss Xu first took over the team, he frantically introduced strength players, domestic players such as Gao Lin, Zheng Zhi, Sun Xiang, and foreign players such as Muric and Conca. When Gao Lin first joined Guangzhou Evergrande, his annual salary reached 3 million yuan, and at that time, he had not yet come to the Golden Yuan football period, and 3 million was already the top salary at that time. Since then, Gao Lin's salary has become higher and higher year by year, and in several seasons, Gao Lin's annual salary has exceeded 10 million yuan, and the highest season is even close to 20 million yuan.
Bai Guohua said that Gao Lin has made more than 100 million yuan in Evergrande, and Gao Lin is also particularly good at financial management, when he bought a mansion in Guangzhou for 40 million yuan, and after living for a few years, Gao Lin chose to sell, and Lin Zixiang and his wife took over, and the value of the mansion at this time reached 130 million yuan.
Bai Guohua said that Guangzhou Evergrande does not have its own stadium and base, and Boss Xu has always been worried about this incident, and once said: Evergrande is so good that it does not deserve its own stadium. At that time, one of the people in charge once wanted to grant one of the most prosperous areas in Guangzhou to Evergrande, but then the heavyweight left Guangzhou, and the matter was not followed.
Guangzhou Evergrande once wanted to build a new stadium, which will be even more luxurious than Camp Nou after the design concept is completed, and the total cost of design and construction has reached 12 billion. But with Evergrande's problems, Boss Xu's hopes were dashed.
Although the current Guangzhou Evergrande barely survived, its operating costs in recent seasons have only been more than 10 million, which is only equivalent to the winning bonus of a ball at Evergrande's peak. Evergrande also defaulted on the rent of Tianhe Stadium and Panyu base. Not long ago, Panyu District said that it would take back the training base of the Guangzhou team because the Guangzhou team had defaulted on a lot of rent.
Bai Guohua helplessly said that the China League One had not yet been played, and the Guangzhou team "had stolen their home."