On the night of June 20, 2021, Guangzhou Football Club announced a news that shook the football world, their number one foreign star Paulinho officially "parted ways" with the team. Paulinho also released a farewell video through social media, expressing his gratitude to Guangzhou and his country. Just a month ago, Guangzhou Football Club announced that another foreign aid Talisker will join the Saudi Arabia Lazard Success team, but the specific details were not disclosed. It is reported that Lazard Success paid a transfer fee of up to 8 million euros for Talisca. Paulinho's "leave", the official reason given by the epidemic, unable to fulfill the contract, the two sides reached an agreement on the formal termination of the contract.
The departure of Paulinho and Talisca marks the official farewell to the era of foreign aid domination in the Chinese Super League. In this season's Chinese Super League, the only foreign aid that can be called a "big leg" is Oscar of the harbor team. In view of the current anti-epidemic policy and the relevant rules of the Chinese Super League, the return of big-name foreign aiders will be out of reach in the next few years.
Paulinho, who has been dubbed the "No. 1 man in the Chinese Super League", has been associated with Guangzhou soccer since he first joined Evergrande in 2015. He has played 176 matches on all fronts for the team, scoring 74 goals and contributing 29 assists, contributing to Evergrande's second AFC Champions League title. At a time when Guangzhou soccer needs to rely on it the most, Paulinho is undoubtedly the team's most reliable player. His personal ability and professionalism have also earned him the respect of other clubs in the Chinese Super League, and he has become a benchmark for many clubs when bringing in foreign aid. In the era of the prevalence of gold-dollar soccer, being able to have a super midfielder like Paulinho, who covers the opponent's penalty area from his own penalty area, means having the capital to compete with Evergrande. In the view of many coaches, the reason why Guangzhou Evergrande is terrible, largely due to Paulinho this, "other foreign aid can not, as long as Paulinho on, Evergrande is still that Evergrande."
Even in the world transfer market, Paulinho is the most marketable star.In 2017, Barcelona paid €40 million directly to take Paulinho away from Evergrande in the form of triggering his release clause after several fruitless offers. Paulinho then signed a four-year deal with Barcelona for an annual salary of €5 million. The fact that a player from a non-mainstream league can be so affirmed and recognized by the world's top giants, Barcelona, is also unique in world football. The reality also proves that Barcelona's vision is unique. Paulinho definitely has the level to gallop in the La Liga and even the Champions League. In the subsequent 34 games for Barcelona, Paulinho contributed 9 goals and 2 assists, filling the vacuum of Barcelona's midfielders while also playing a technical endorsement role for the Chinese Super League.
In Barcelona "gold plating" more than a season later, Evergrande to 47.5 million euros the price of Paulinho repurchase, and Paulinho's personal annual salary and the first time to join Evergrande 7 million euros compared to the realization of the double. In addition, Evergrande in order to introduce Paulinho also paid 200 million yuan to the CFA mediation fee. Although the transfer ended in a bloody loss for Evergrande, Guangzhou eventually recovered their old captain and under his leadership, also won the league title in the 2019 season.
Paulinho's departure, so that the Chinese Super League "big leg" foreign aid only Oscar. Guoan foreign aid Augusto is delayed in returning to the team, and is expected to leave the team is only a matter of time. Harbor's other foreign aid Arnautovic is currently playing in the European Cup, he left the Chinese Super League to return to Europe, the news is also clamoring. Considering that the Austrian national team will also be playing in the World Cup in the second half of the season, under the current anti-epidemic policy, it is unlikely that Arnautovic will be able to travel back and forth between Europe and Asia, and it is unlikely that Arnautovic will be able to leave the team in this summer's transfer window.
The start of the Chinese Super League this season has been completely starry-eyed, foreign aid transfers in the Chinese Super League salons between the "internal transfer", or in Japan and South Korea to find gold in the league, Europe and the United States mainstream foreign aid is almost difficult to find traces. The introduction of this season's biggest foreign aid is the Shenzhen team's Jinteiro, officially revealed its price of 5.9 million euros, compared to the peak price of Paulinho as high as 42 million euros, this price is still the European transfer market assessment of the price, has been filtered out of the intermediary of the "water", as of the first half of this year, the 32-year-old Paulinho's value is still as high as 9.5 million euros.
There are many reasons for the dimming of the starlight of the Chinese Super League, firstly, the Football Association's salary restriction has limited big-name foreign aiders from joining the league, and the pre-tax salary cap of 3 million euros for foreign aiders has made it impossible for the Chinese Super League salons to bring in any more big-name foreign aiders. Secondly, affected by the epidemic, many big-name foreign aiders, even if they agreed to join the Chinese Super League, it is difficult to get the relevant work visa. This is also the reason why the transfer of foreign aid this season is mostly based on internal activities. Some insiders told reporters that now the Chinese Super League to buy foreign aid, the first is not to ask how the ability, how much money you want, but for there is no Chinese visa, there is a Chinese visa and then we talk down, no Chinese visa, do not have to talk down.
In addition, due to the impact of various factors, investors are much less enthusiastic about soccer, and it is unlikely that they will spend a lot of money on bringing in big-name football stars in the short term. The league was affected by the epidemic, changed to the tournament system, the second half of the World Cup kicked off, the league is likely to fall into a few months of suspension, all of these have a certain impact on the enthusiasm of investors. Many insiders believe that perhaps within the next few years, the golden dollar Chinese Super League has been completely drawn to a close, perhaps it is difficult to see the figure of big-name foreign aid in the next few years. (Sohu Sports Pei Li)
