After this round of league play, the Chinese Super League will enter a three-week off-season. After the end of the first phase of the league, some Chinese Super League clubs that did not meet expectations will also make adjustments to the team, including the veteran powerhouse Beijing Guoan.
This season, Guoan's performance in the league has been up and down, with only 4 wins, 6 draws and 2 defeats after 12 league rounds, and is currently ranked 7th in the Chinese Super League standings, which is not a small gap from the club's goal of 4 relegation and 1 relegation set before the season.
The team's poor results naturally require someone to step up and take responsibility, and manager Stanley Menzo is undoubtedly the most suitable person. Objectively speaking, Stanley's ability is indeed relatively average, and he is not suitable for coaching the Chinese Super League first team. But after joining Guoan in the second half of last season, he still contributed to the team's return to the right track.
The team's unsatisfactory results are not Stanley's responsibility alone, the club's recruitment is unfavorable, the coaching staff is not professional enough, and there are many problems in daily training, all of which have a certain relationship.
But Guoan Club was ready to replace Stanley early in the league, and it is reported that after the 12th round of the Chinese Super League with Dalian, Stanley will officially leave class. But he should remain in Guoan, return to his original position, and continue to coach Guoan's U21 echelon.
The new manager of Guoan was also decided a month ago, he is the Portuguese Ricardo Suarez, who was previously rumored to be Portuguese. The Portuguese boss is unknown in the Europa League and has a very mediocre coaching record. He has been out of class nine times in the past eight years, and most of the teams he has coached are relegated teams.
According to the latest news, Suarez has terminated his contract with the former club Estoril, and next week he will fly to Beijing with his coaching team to complete the contract with the Guoan Club, and the two sides will sign a large, two-and-a-half-year contract. In other words, as soon as the second phase of the Chinese Super League kicks off at the end of June, the Portuguese boss will be ready for his official debut.
In addition, there is also news that Suarez's arrival also sent a meeting gift to the Guoan club - he will bring a new foreign striker to Guoan, it is reported that the foreign striker once played for the Portuguese Premier League team Famalicon.
This season, the Guoan team has encountered a problem of weakness, and the leading goalscorer Zhang Yuning has missed a large number of games due to injury. Judging from the news he posted on social media some time ago, it is very likely that he will not be able to return to the team in a short period of time.
Nigerian striker Adebenro is also a glass physique, only starting 5 times for Guoan this season, and his personal characteristics are not suitable for Stanley's tactical system, often getting caught up in battles with rival defenders on the left side of Guoan, which does not help the team's attack much.
Therefore, the current Guoan team urgently needs to bring in a new foreign striker in the summer transfer window of the Chinese Super League to solve the problem of striker weakness that has plagued the team. However, the transfer ban of Guoan has not yet been lifted, and if you want to recruit in the summer window, you must pay off the transfer fee owed to Adebenro as soon as possible.
In addition, it is also unknown whether the new foreign striker can quickly integrate into Guoan and adapt to the rhythm of the Chinese Super League. But in any case, Guoan's active search for change shows that the club has not given up. Even if they can't compete for the Chinese Super League title, their goal of the top 4 in the league will certainly not change easily...