Last season, Chinese Super League veteran Beijing Guoan performed poorly, ranking only seventh. In this off-season, Li Ming, the general manager of Beijing Guoan, has put a lot of effort into signing new players, helping Beijing Guoan sign five new players, namely Ademi, De Souza, Fang Hao, Li Lei and Yang Liyu. In addition, the national football naturalized international player Li Ke has recovered from injury, the new season Beijing Guoan's overall strength will be greatly improved. However, from the overall strength point of view, they can't shake Wuhan Three Town and Shandong Taishan's championship situation, but next season Beijing Guoan is definitely the most powerful contender for the AFC Champions League seat.
From last season's performance, Guoan's strikers didn't perform very well, with the two foreigners, Albenro and Dabbro, not supporting their main striker, Zhang Yuning, enough. Although Guoan signed U21 CSL Golden Boot winner Fang Hao from Shandong Taishan for free last season. But the young striker also needs to improve his individual ability. For now, he can only rotate as a substitute player for the striker. Zheng Rong plays an important role and he needs a lot of games to test his individual ability. The additions of Ademi and De Souza have further improved Guoan's midfield control and passing efficiency, but without being able to find a reliable partner for Zhang Yuning to share his attacking pressure, Guoan's performance this season could be greatly affected.
Personally, Beijing Guoan could consider signing naturalized international Alan. After parting ways with Guangzhou, Allan returned to the Brazilian league to play for Fluminense. According to the latest news from Soccer Daily, Alan is still in close contact with the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and wants to represent the national soccer team in the Asian Cup. Before coming to China, the naturalized international played for Austrian giants Red Bull Salzburg and won the Golden Boot award in the Europa League. At the time, Red Bull Salzburg's head coach was former Guoan manager Schmidt. The First World War fame caught the attention of Chinese Super League teams. Guangzhou Evergrande brought him in at a high price. Coincidentally, while playing for Guangzhou Evergrande, Alan was loaned by the team to play for Beijing Guoan, where he performed well in the AFC Champions League. Personally, Alan is familiar with Guoan's overall tactical play and environment, and can achieve plug-and-play results.
Allan's blitz up front is very fast, and with Zhang Yuning's powerful penalty area pivot, Guoan's offense will become more three-dimensional. If Zhang Yuning and Alan can establish a tacit understanding up front, it will also benefit the national team as they prepare for the Asian Cup and World Cup qualifiers. This is a good choice for both the national team and Beijing Guoan. What's more, when Alan returns to Beijing Guoan, he will not take up the team's quota of foreigners, and he can play as Guoan's national team.
In terms of those leaving the team, the versatile Yu Dabao up front is likely to leave the team. Striker Yu Dabao has been a part of the national soccer team. He had scored many times in the World Cup qualifiers and Asian Cup and had made great contributions to the national soccer team. As he grew older, Yu Dabao dared to play as a center back. However, his performance has been questioned time and again and Beijing Guoan is trying to bring in Cameroonian center back Ndega Long from the Belgian league. The center back from Africa is 1.91 meters tall and has a strong anti-aircraft ability. His arrival will likely shorten Dabao's playing time at Beijing Guoan. Beijing Guoan is in a critical stage of transition between the old and the new, and would like to see a veteran like Yu Dabao leave the team.
