In the first phase of the Chinese Super League, Guangzhou City's performance has been a mixed bag, with only one win and nine losses, 8 goals scored but 24 goals conceded, and finally ranking at the bottom of the table with 8 points. If we don't take into account the 3 points awarded to Dalian Ren for the illegal use of U23 players, and the 5 goals added from 0-2 to 3-0, Guangzhou City's position may also fall even lower than Hebei's (1 win, 0 draws, 9 losses, 5 goals scored and 22 goals conceded), so it can be said that the first phase of the performance can be regarded as the worst of the Chinese Super League.
Guangzhou City team's low season is not a coincidence. The first thing is the change in the team's lineup. In the past, this team, which is small and discerning, always managed to poach cost-effective foreigners from the international soccer world, such as Xavi and Guilherme, and supported by a group of mid-generation players, such as domestic players Tang Miao, Ye Chugui, Zeng Chao, and Chang Fei Ya, such a lineup is firmly in the middle and upper echelon of the Chinese Super League. However, from the second half of last year, the team suffered from frequent serious injuries, and all the above domestic players were unable to participate in the first stage of the game. Coupled with budgetary issues, the team lost one foreign aid player after another, and only welcomed one foreign aid player, Caldona, in the second half of the first stage. With such a staff configuration, poor results were expected. In desperation, head coach Van Garst rotated his young players around, but few stood out.
In addition to staffing problems, the issue of salary arrears is also a major influencing factor in the unsuccessful shareholding reform of the Salon. Up to now, Salon has only paid out the salaries for the first four months of this year, and some of last year's salaries have not been paid. This also led to the team's pre-season preparations were not systematic, the team had a strike before the start of the league, the team's morale and cohesion during the game also fluctuated several times. It is understood that there will be big changes ahead for Sharon. Due to the poor results, the original process of share reform is not smooth again stranded, the state-owned enterprises have not participated in 10 days of work related to salon, and originally responsible for the share reform of the salon chairman Huang Shenghua was transferred away from the former general manager of the salon Zhang Bin returned to be responsible for the approach to the reform of the share, and the players negotiated with the unpaid wages to solve the problem as well as to serve as the day-to-day work. Sources said that Huang Shenghua will leave Salon and Fortune Group. This means that Guangzhou City Salon will have a large number of variables, whether it can successfully survive the Chinese Super League break is still unknown.
