Informed sources revealed that, according to People's Daily, one reason behind the huge loss of Evergrande Group that cannot be ignored is that Evergrande Group has invested a huge amount of money in completing the naturalization of five players, including Eckerson and Gaolat. In 2019 alone, Evergrande Group paid as much as 870 million yuan in transfer fees, salaries and settlement fees for these five naturalized players.
Taking Golat as an example, Evergrande Group's 2019 annual report shows that there is a record of expenditure of up to 95.93 million yuan, and the funds flowed to a company called "LINPARKHOLDINGS LIMITED", which is Golat's business partner.
At the time, Golat was on loan to Brazilian club Palmeiras, and the funds were presumed to be for the cost of recalling Golat to Brazil, including his salary at Palmeiras as well as signing and settling-in fees upon his return to Evergrande.
It's puzzling why Gallagher is still saddled with a hefty salary despite being on loan at Palmeiras.
In the second half of the 2018 season, due to Golat's injury and Cannavaro's lineup adjustment, his position in Evergrande's team is no longer solid, so the relationship with Palmeiras is getting closer. However, the Barclays Premier League team could not afford Golat's high salary, and the Brazilian media revealed that Evergrande Group agreed to the loan proposal and assumed about 80% of the salary, while the two teams also agreed on a buyout clause worth 15 million euros after the expiration of a one-year rental period.
Overall, if Golat eventually moves to the Barclays Premier League, the Evergrande group will not only have a slight surplus, but will also be able to vacate valuable foreign aid slots. However, the naturalization channel suddenly opens up, and the extra salary borne by recalling Golat naturally becomes valuable.
In an interview at the airport in Brazil, Gallart said that returning to Evergrande was an important decision in his career.
According to a report by Oriental Sports Daily on September 21, 2020, Golat earns an annual salary of 13 million euros, or about 95 million yuan.
Between his rejoining Evergrande at the end of May 2019 and his departure in November 2021, the total amount of money in just two and a half years, plus Golat's salary and recall fees, is close to RMB 300 million.
SportsBiz reached out to a source close to the Canton team for verification and received a mostly positive response.
Why the strongest naturalization is not in the National Football League
In January 2015, 23-year-old Golat moved to Guangzhou Evergrande from Barclays Premier League side Cruzeiro.
In the 2013 season, Gallart scored 10 goals and 5 assists in 33 games for Cruzeiro, and in the 2014 season, he scored 15 goals and 5 assists in 26 games, ranking second in the Barclays Premier League (BPL) scoring charts, with the team winning the BPL title both seasons.In the 2014 season, he also scored 4 goals and 2 assists in the Copa Libertadores.
With these outstanding performances, Gallart managed to catch the attention of then Brazilian national team manager Dunga, and in February 2014, Gallart was selected for the Brazilian national team and made his national team debut.
Golat excelled at Guangzhou Evergrande in the 2015 season
Since arriving at Guangzhou Evergrande, Golat has lived up to his reputation as one of the key contributors to Evergrande's 2015 AFC Champions League title. In his career with Guangzhou, Golat has made 174 appearances, scoring 110 goals and assisting 54 times. Golat is ranked first in Guangzhou's all-time top scorer list by German transfer market.com.
Evergrande has had a decade of huge investment and superstars, but Golat's status is indisputable. Despite the doubtful possibility of his naturalization, Evergrande still spared no expense in bringing him in, and past excellent performance is undoubtedly an important consideration.
There were two main difficulties faced during the naturalization process of Gallagher. The first was that he had played on September 9, 2014 for the Brazilian national team in Ecuador. However, this match was not an official national team event organized by FIFA or CONCACAF, and therefore had nothing to do with Gallart's conversion.
Gallagher has played for Brazil
This means that Golat only needs to fulfill the condition of "five years of continuous residence" in China and should be eligible to play for the national team.
According to the analysis of the domestic media at the time, Evergrande believed that Golat had lived in our country for five years from the beginning of 2015 to the end of 2019, and despite a brief return to Brazil to play football in the first half of 2019, the time away was not long, and the people involved still believed that they had the certainty of securing qualification for Golat, and went out of their way to seek the assistance of professional lawyers. However, in the end, it was the brief Brazilian experience that proved to be the difference that kept Gallagher out of the national team.
Looking back, it's also worth trying to analyze Everest's aggressive approach during that naturalization boom.
Back to the middle of 2019, the World Preliminary League Forty task then, our men's football team is preparing to open the impact of the Qatar World Cup journey. At the power level, Chen Xuyuan is about to take over the presidency of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), and Lippi is once again taking up the coaching whip of the national football team. At the player level, Li Ke, a naturalized player with a bloodline, has already made his debut in national football matches, and the naturalization process of Ackerson is about to be completed.
Evergrande, the main business of the capital chain has not yet appeared problems, as well as automobile and other star business is developing rapidly, in the top-down are highly valued in the case of soccer to continue to increase investment, from a microscopic point of view, this may be a wise approach. After all, naturalization of this road, Evergrande's "money ability" can be fully developed.
A source analyzed to the sports business, at that time, Evergrande has plenty of money, can be naturalized target and limited, as long as possible, "first get back again". To take a step back, with the strength of Golat, even if it can not be used for the national football team, can also be used for Evergrande itself.
Golat left our country from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport
In fact, Evergrande engaged in soccer for so many years, look away from the investment is not quite a lot, but in the brilliant results, these naturally not so important. As long as the results of the national soccer team went up, for Golat burn a few hundred million may not be so important.
However, after the new crown epidemic, the macro environment shifted drastically and Evergrande's financial chain broke.
The input-output ratio is extremely low. Naturalization is a farce.
In fact, not many players have been able to be successfully used by the national football team in this wave of naturalization.
Guoan's Li Ke and Hou Yongyong, both landed in Chinese football with huge halos. But Hou Yongyong soon struggled to even get a chance to play in the Chinese Super League, while Li Ke spent most of 2021 recovering from injuries.
Guangzhou Evergrande's six naturalized players, in addition to Golat can not represent the national football team, had high hopes of "small motorcycle" Fernando also completely useless. He was briefly selected for the national team in the 40th round of the tournament, but soon withdrew from the training due to injury, and then has been stranded in Brazil in the name of recuperating from injuries.
In other news, Guangzhou Evergrande brought in Chinese player Xiao Tao Tao from the Peruvian league and went through the naturalization process for him, but the player was soon found to be average. Xiaotao Tao Tao has since been playing in the Central League, and this season he has made 14 league appearances for Kunshan FC, scoring two goals.
Xiao Tao Tao
In addition, Shandong Luneng also operated Delgado's naturalization operation, but the player will have to wait until after 2024 at the earliest to be eligible to play for the national football team. Shanghai Greenland Shenhua from Gabon to bring in Qianjie give, also has been naturalized, but because had played for the Gabon national team, has long been unable to represent the national football team on the field.
Overall, the naturalization of the Chinese football industry, from finding a target, then successfully naturalized, and then play for the national football team, the input-output ratio is not high. Even if it is not easy to be selected for the national team and train hard to meet the requirements of the competition, you may not be able to get enough playing time.
Now, Golat has left first, leaving Lo, Alan and Aixon struggling to hold on in the national football team, but that hold on may not be for long either, despite Lo's tweet after the draw with Oman that he would fight to the end.
With the current points situation, the national soccer team will be eliminated sooner or later, and even after the next match with Australia, the national soccer team may completely lose the theoretical possibility of advancing. The Qatar World Cup dream is shattered, which also means that the biggest mission of this group of naturalized players will end.
And now that Guangzhou's prospects are bleak, having owed wages for a long time, and other Chinese Super League teams are finding it hard to afford the super-high salaries of tens of millions of RMB for these players, these players have every option of leaving China as free agents and refusing to play in the last four walkover games of the next year's Top 12 tournament. As for the 2026 World Cup, the qualifiers will have to wait until 2023 at the earliest, so for one thing, these naturalized players are nearing the twilight of their careers, and for another, there's really no telling what could be used to convince them to keep their Chinese citizenship.
Exxon to make National Football League debut in 2019
In September 2019, the national soccer team's World Cup Top 40 match against the Maldives was still fresh in the mind as Exxon sang the national anthem with his head held high. As the first non-blooded naturalized player of the national football team, he not only made his debut in this match, but also made history by scoring two goals. No one knew at the time whether this path would be successful, but at least it was worth feeling our way forward.
However, the farce eventually ended.
