With the curtain about to rise on the 2022 Chinese Super League season, Guangzhou City will soon embark on their journey. At 4:20pm today, the team will take off from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport on a China Southern Airlines flight to Haikou. And yesterday, the special bus loaded with the team's equipment and medical equipment, has long sailed to Haikou.
According to the club's publicized first-team list, a total of 35 players are enrolled in this stage of the competition, with an average age of 25.4 years old. During the break, Guangzhou City not only renewed the contract of last season's manager Fan Gast, but also completed the contract renewal of Tang Miao, Cheng Yuelei, Zhang Gong and many other players. In addition, seven "after 00" players, such as Tang Jiayin and Li Zhuoxuan, have been transferred to the first team. Together with Wu Chengru and Wen Yongjun, who have already made their debut in the Chinese Super League, the number of "after 00" players of Guangzhou City has increased to 11, and the team as a whole is showing a trend of rejuvenation.
However, Guangzhou City's road to reform was not a smooth one. Although 100 million yuan has been deposited on the books, the club is unable to utilize the funds due to the share reform issue. The previously promised payment of players' salary arrears has also been repeatedly postponed, and the players have expressed dissatisfaction with this, and some players have even made the threat of a strike. Fortunately, after many rounds of communication, the club and the players reached a preliminary solution. The club said that the new investor will push forward the share reform, and the players will be stationed in the district on time. However, the players' side demanded the club to raise funds to pay three months' salary within 14 days, otherwise Guangzhou City team might face new challenges.
According to the schedule, Guangzhou City will face Changchun Yatai, Dalian People, Shandong Taishan, Henan Songshan Longmen and Zhejiang in the first five rounds of the tournament.
