The news is closed and all but silent.On February 17, faced with the question of whether they had received a notice to return to winter training, Canton players responded in the same tone.The 2022 season of the
China Super League (soccer league)
In the first round of the A-League, the spectacular scene of the "four Cantonese champions" of 26 years ago will be recreated. But in the promotion horse Meizhou Hakka in the first seven years (February 7) kicked off the winter training prelude, last season among the championship group of Guangzhou City and Shenzhen team has been in this Wednesday (16) to start the new season's first training, while the deep financial difficulties and equity reform of the Guangzhou team has never seen the horn of the winter training rally.
The year 2022 will undoubtedly be a challenging year for Guangzhou. 16th, Guangzhou announced through the official announcement that it has terminated the contracts of 5 naturalized players, including Ackerson, Golat, Allan, Lok Kwok Foo and Fernando, which is only a formal formality. As we all know, these 5 naturalized players did not appear in the Guangzhou team's roster for the championship group as early as in mid-December last year before the start of the second phase of the tournament. Fernando stayed in Brazil for treatment since his injury in May last year, while four of them - Aixon, Gaolat, Allan and Lo Guofu - refused to play for Guangzhou after representing the national soccer team in the draws with Australia and Oman, and returned to Brazil one after another. In fact, since then, these five naturalized players have decided to terminate their contracts with the Guangzhou team, and what remains is only a form of parting ways.
Although the five naturalized players have terminated their contracts with Guangzhou and will probably not appear in the new Chinese Super League season, they have not renounced their Chinese nationality at this stage. Unsurprisingly, they will still be called up by the national soccer team, which will play its last two World Cup qualifying matches in the Asian 12 in late March. Since the "home" match against Saudi Arabia and the away match against Oman will be played in West Asia, these naturalized players will only need to go directly to the match city on time to meet the national football team, without having to return to their home country to undergo medical quarantine and participate in the pre-match training.
With five naturalized midfielders out of contract, the only concern is the destination of defensive naturalized Jiang Guangtai. The ideal scenario would be for Jiang to remain in Guangzhou to play in the Chinese Super League, provided his modest salary is met. Currently, several Chinese Super League (CSL) teams with championship ambitions are eyeing the national football team's star center back, and are interested in poaching him to strengthen their defenses.
Before the FA introduced the latest version of the salary limit order, the Guangzhou team threw a heavy bomb: the new season the team's first team of excellent main annual salary cap of 600,000 yuan (before tax), the other first team players' annual salary standard control in the pre-tax 140,000 to 420,000 or so. This amazing move is on the one hand to respond to the requirements of the Football Association on the club to limit the salary investment, on the other hand is also due to the financial crisis faced by the Guangzhou team. Since September last year, Guangzhou has joined the ranks of the FA's unpaid clubs, and although it ended the season in third place in the Chinese Super League with a partial reimbursement of salaries, it still owes its players many months of salary arrears. Although the Football Association has not yet announced the deadline for the declaration of qualification for the new season, Guangzhou team to retain the qualification for the Chinese Super League, is not to focus on retaining most of the team's main players, but to do a good job of rejuvenation of the team to speed up the Evergrande School players to pick up the major players at the same time, it must be as soon as possible as soon as possible to deal with all the arrears of wages and allow the players to sign the confirmation of salary and bonus form. Looking at two consecutive seasons of the Chinese Super League through the closed session system, and the Guangzhou team is facing the same problem of survival of the clubs are not a few, in addition to a handful of normal payroll clubs, there are salary arrears in the Chinese Super League clubs to reach double-digit numbers, which is the FA had to actively promote the clubs of the share reform is an important reason.
Unfortunately, the share reform is easier said than done. In the Football Association's club shareholding reform program, the equity reform of the Chinese Super League clubs must be carried out under the leadership of the government departments where the clubs are located, and the reformed clubs must have state-owned enterprises as the largest shareholders. In the form of equity distribution, the club can be based on their own situation to implement the most suitable form of their own development needs, the most common form of equity distribution of a club is 433, that is, as the club's largest fixed state-owned enterprises accounted for 40%, the original club investors and interested in participating in the private sector accounted for 30%. The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Even if the local government departments intend to actively coordinate, but the original investors and the state-owned enterprises or private enterprises that are eager to try their own schemes, all hope to be able to fight for the party's greatest interests and the right to speak, so that as long as any one of the links out of the problem, the share reform work will inevitably be unable to promote the deadlock, the most concerned about the Guangzhou team is undoubtedly the best example.
