In the early morning of July 9, Guangzhou Evergrande officially announced that Brazilian midfielder Paulinho officially returned to the team and joined the team on loan for one year.
According to previous media reports, Paulinho's annual salary at Evergrande doubled to 14 million euros.
The official announcement of Guangzhou Evergrande is as follows:
On July 9, Beijing time, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Football Club officially announced that it officially signed a contract with Paulinho[full name: Jose Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior,] a Brazilian international and midfielder of Barcelona, Spain, and joined on loan for one year. Recently, Paulinho will fly back to Guangzhou to report, compete in the Chinese Super League with guangzhou, and strive to win the "eight consecutive championships" of the Chinese Super League.
Paulinho is 30 years old and plays as a midfielder who can attack and defend. From June 2015 to August 2017, Paulinho played 84 games for Guangzhou, contributing 22 goals and 5 assists, and from August 2017 to May 2018, he played 49 games for Barcelona, Spain, scoring 9 goals and contributing 2 assists. In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Paulinho was the absolute main player of brazil, playing 5 games and 353 minutes, scoring 1 goal.
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