According to FIFA official sources, guizhou Hengfeng former head coach Manzano was awarded an arbitration ruling on the issue of salary bargaining, and without calculating interest, the club was required to pay Manzano 3.8 million euros, equivalent to about 30.43 million yuan.
The FIFA arbitration result is: First, Guizhou Hengfeng needs to pay 1.7875 million euros in remuneration to Manzano within 30 days; second, Guizhou Hengfeng needs to pay 2,012,500 euros in compensation to Manzano within 30 days as liquidated damages for the termination of the contract. Added up, Guizhou Hengfeng needs to pay Manzano 3.8 million euros, equivalent to about 30.43 million yuan. In addition, Guizhou Hengfeng also needs to pay interest to Manzano at an annual interest rate of 5%, starting from July 2, 2018.
As an old acquaintance of Chinese football, Manzano coached Beijing Guoan in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, Shanghai Shenhua in the 2016 season, and won the best coach of the Chinese Super League in 2014.
Manzano signed with Guizhou Hengfeng in April 2017 as the team's head coach. In the second season of coaching, due to poor results, the club terminated his contract early, and Guizhou Hengfeng was relegated to the Middle League that year. But Sano was not satisfied with Guizhou Hengfeng's decision, saying that Guizhou Hengfeng still owed his salary and sued the club to FIFA.
In the past two years, Guizhou Hengfeng has long since lost the large-scale investment in the Chinese Super League. Now, according to FIFA's judgment, it is also necessary to pay More than 30 million compensation to Manzano, which makes the team that has already encountered operational difficulties even worse, and the journey to the Chinese First Division in 2021 may be even more difficult.