CITIC Group, the majority shareholder of Chinese Super League's Beijing Guoan, recently sold its Czech club Slavia Prague to Czech tycoon Pavel Tikac for 640 million yuan, Sport.cz reported. Back in 2018, CITIC Group had acquired FC Slavia Prague for a huge sum of money and made it a satellite team of Beijing Guoan. During this period, CITIC Group continued to send young talents to Slavia Prague for training. Now, Slavia Prague bid farewell to CITIC Group after experiencing financial difficulties.
After taking over Beijing Guoan, Sino Group has not been able to bring significant achievements to the team in the era of gold-dollar soccer. In recent years, with the real estate market in the doldrums, Zhonghe Group even used Guoan shares as collateral to borrow money from banks, resulting in the club being heavily indebted and even facing a ban from FIFA. Last season, Beijing Guoan suffered difficulties in the introduction of foreign aid, Croatian media hrsport reported that Dabrow is reluctant to return to Guoan in the new season, and his agent is trying to get him to return to European teams.
In addition to Dabrow, Brazilian midfielder De Souza, who joined Guoan in the Turkish league, also missed the second half of the league due to injury. According to Turkish media reports, De Souza is expected to join Istanbul FC and has flown to Turkey to prepare for the signing. Meanwhile, Chinese player Wu Shaocong, whose ownership also belongs to Istanbul, is currently on loan to Young United FC of the Turkish First Division.
Beijing Guoan will also 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, Soares has led the team to achieve good results. In the new season, the Portuguese coach can introduce strong reinforcements for Guoan, bring new changes, people look forward to.
