According to reporter Cheng Wenli, at present, the Shenzhen team has a total of six senior club personnel to assist in the investigation of Li Tie's case. Since the team's general manager Dinh Dung was taken away by the relevant departments for investigation, Sun Vietnam, the second-in-command of Jiazhaoye Group, has been appointed to the club to preside over the big picture. In addition to the club's internal staff, the issue of the team's salary arrears involving Li Tie's case has not yet been properly resolved. According to previously disclosed news, the Shenzhen club is currently facing a huge debt of 3.5 billion yuan. At present, the team has actively carried out self-help work. In order to avoid the dissolution of the team, Shenzhen club has been prepared for relegation. Before the start of the new Chinese Super League season, Shenzhen is likely to be the first Chinese Super League team to be relegated due to debt problems.
Since the Jiazhaoye Group joined the hosts, they have invested a lot of money in the team. After Evergrande withdrew from Chinese soccer due to the economic crisis, the Shenzhen team has bucked the trend by signing six current former national soccer starters, including veteran Gao Lin, Wang Yongpei, Li Yuanyi, Dai Weijun, Jiang Zhipeng and Mi Haolun. Among them, the young midfielder Dai Weijun has been successfully selected for the Asian Games squad of the national football team, and selected for the national team to participate in the top 12. Once the future core of the national soccer team's midfield flows into the transfer market, it will surely usher in competition from the Chinese Super League teams. Many old international players, including Gao Lin, are not in the same form as before, but they can still find an ideal next home in the Chinese Super League or the Chinese League One to continue their careers with their rich experience in the game. If Shenzhen is unlucky enough to be relegated, most of the team's star players may leave, and the six international players will likely be split between the Chinese Super League and Central League teams.
Many Shenzhen players have planned to leave the team to earn a living in light of the team's current dire situation. According to a follow-up report by Cheng Wenli, two of Shenzhen's key players, Li Yuan, will leave the team along with Zhang Yuan. Last season, league runner-up Shandong Taishan is likely to throw an olive branch to the Shenzhen captain. Li Yuanyi, whose contract with Shenzhen has expired, will likely join Shandong Taishan for free to replace midfielder Liao Lisheng, who may leave Taishan. Other players could also wait for the club's final decision or until the Chinese Super League transfer market opens.
As the champion team in the first year of the Chinese Super League, Shenzhen created quite a brilliant record and history, but now they have become the second former Chinese Super League champion to enter the Chinese Super League this season, just like the eighth champion of the Chinese Super League, Guangzhou Evergrande. All this is a vicious circle of golden dollar soccer, the value of domestic and foreign aid has soared, the operating cost of the music department has been increasing, plus the epidemic and other objective factors have made it impossible for the music department to repay the debt for a long time. It's worth noting that if Shenzhen is relegated due to debt problems, Guangzhou will likely replace Shenzhen as the replacement team back in the Chinese Super League. Paradoxically, Guangzhou's big boss Xu Jiayin is a promoter of gold-dollar soccer.
However, Evergrande's return to the Chinese Super League won't be that easy, and they will have to find a new receiver to gain access to the league. Who would be willing to take over the chaos at Guangzhou after Xu Kayin announced that he would no longer inject himself into the team?
