After the relegation of Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai's Oriental Sports Daily specializes in sending a document that carries a stone. The media listed Evergrande as the "sinner" of Chinese soccer, and considered that Evergrande's promotion of gold dollar soccer indirectly harmed Chinese soccer! Media wrote: "Evergrande let Chinese soccer began to look at money. The rich and capricious Evergrande broke the rules of CSL. Most clubs began to see soccer as a golden plaything and stopped steadily developing the foundation of soccer. More and more rich people started to end up, causing the CSL to decouple from competitive sports and become a money-burning game. When the money becomes unsustainable, the CSL will be cut to the bottom as well!"
Oriental Sports Daily also criticized, "Evergrande claimed to spend a lot of money to build Evergrande Soccer School, but they are superficial articles. For years, the league competition has relied mainly on importing big brands, scornfully using the youngsters it has trained, leading Evergrande, which has no money, to become useless and eventually be relegated. Even the richest Evergrande doesn't want to engage in youth training, which could conceivably serve as a model for the rest of the Chinese Super League. The Chinese Super League has weak successors and Chinese soccer has no successors. Evergrande has an unshirkable responsibility!"
The media also summarized by saying, "In the history of Chinese soccer, Evergrande is just a passerby, even in the most glamorous clothes."
