Jet news has come in that CITIC Group has sold its satellite club of Chinese Super League powerhouse Beijing Guoan, Slavia Prague, to wealthy Czech businessman Pavel Tikach for a whopping RMB 640 million. Back in 2018, when the Chinese Super League was in its gold-dollar heyday, CITIC Group took a majority stake in Slavia Prague in one fell swoop, making it an affiliate of Guoan. During this period, Guoan continued to send potential stars to Prague Slavia for trial training, and Prague Slavia also used the power of Guoan to get out of financial difficulties. Now, Slavia Prague is saying goodbye to CITIC, and CITIC Group is looking for a new path of development.
After Zhonghe Group took over Beijing Guoan, it did not manage to bring a qualitative leap for the team in the arena of gold-dollar soccer. With the real estate market winter coming, Zhonghe Group in order to reduce the financial burden, and even to the Guoan shares as collateral to the bank borrowing, resulting in the club into a debt crisis and unpaid wages storm, and even punished by the FIFA. Recently, the quality of Guoan foreign aid has been questioned, the Croatian media revealed that last season was loaned to Latvia, Daburo is not willing to return to Guoan. It is worth mentioning that Daburo had a good performance in Dinamo Zagreb, and now his agent is trying to get him back to the European game.
In addition to Dabbro, Brazilian midfielder De Souza did not play for Guoan in the second half of the season due to injury. According to Turkish media, De Souza is expected to join Istanbul and has traveled to Turkey to prepare for the signing. Meanwhile, Guoan's only overseas player, Wu Shaocong, is also owned by Istanbul and is currently on loan to Young United FC of the Turkish First Division. If Wu Shao Cong performs well during his loan, he may be recalled by Istanbul to play alongside De Sousa.
Beijing Guoan will depart for Portugal next month on the 9th for training and preparation for the new season. The team's head coach, Luis Suarez, will be tasked with selecting the new foreign aiders. After taking over Guoan in the second half of last season, Suarez led the team to achieve good results. Whether the trip to Portugal can bring new changes for Guoan is expected.
