On May 2, Guangzhou Football Club announced the complete list of players for the new Chinese Super League season as well as the U21 and U19 teams, in which Wei Shihao, Yan Dinghao, Yang Liyu, Wu Shaochong, Jiang Guangtai and many other stars are listed. However, two players, Li Xuepeng and Zhang Xiuwei, failed to appear in the list, and they are currently facing the embarrassing situation of not being able to play due to missing the transfer window, and are expected to seek new opportunities when the transfer window reopens on August 1st.
It is worth mentioning that most of the main players who have returned to the team recently are free agents through the release of their contracts. It is reported that the Guangzhou team obtained a sum of money in April, and promptly paid two months of back wages to the coaches and players who owed wages. This was a key factor for players such as Wei Shihao, Yang Liyu and Wu Shaocong to choose to stay with the team. The club promised that once the CFA returns the reinforcement adjustment fee, it will be used to pay back the players' outstanding wages in the first instance.
Although the matter of refunding the reinforcement adjustment fee has not yet made substantial progress, but the club's strategy for retaining players has been revealed - Wei Shihao, Yang Liyu, Yan Dinghao and others to stay in the team, which means that they have reached agreement with the club on the annual salary, and failed to get into the first team of Li Xuepeng and Zhang Xiuwei, speculation is that perhaps because of the club offers The annual salary of the club and their expectations there is a gap.
Of course, in order to keep Wei Shihao and a host of other international players, Guangzhou Football Club has also paid a heavy price. After all, according to the previous 15 million yuan a year of operating expenses and 600,000 yuan of the team's highest salary standards, in order to retain Wei Shihao and other international players, they are afraid that their income will be more than the club in February announced the soccer salon players fixed and salary norms plan.
