Reporter Wang Wei reported that on the evening of February 16, Guangzhou Football Club officially issued a document announcing the termination of contracts with naturalized players Axon, Gaulat, Alan, Luo Guofu and Fernando. The parting words of less than 100 words and the farewell poster of the level online can be regarded as retaining a touch of decency after the breakup. However, compared with the early non-news naturalization five will be terminated, almost at the same time exposed a Guangzhou football club "notice", but really "a stone stirs up a thousand waves", according to the standards noted in the notice, the maximum annual salary of Guangzhou team first-team players does not exceed 600,000 yuan before tax, and only three people can get the "top salary award". The salary limit axe was slashed head-on, and the Guangzhou team members could only laugh helplessly: "It is really a diving price." ”
In fact, this is not the first time that guangzhou team has released a team salary standard. In July 2020, Guangzhou Evergrande Club issued the "Notice on the Relevant", setting five levels of "absolute main force", "main force", "main substitute", "substitute" and "selection" for the first team, and set the maximum annual salary standard of 5 million yuan (absolute main force), 3.5 million yuan before tax (main force), 2 million yuan before tax (main substitute), 300,000 yuan before tax (substitute) and 300,000 yuan (selected) for each level, while the starting salary of the first team set at that time was 96,000 yuan per year before tax.
However, it is worth noting that a year and a half ago, the internal salary standard of Evergrande Club, which was known as the "strictest salary restriction order", was only aimed at players cultivated by Evergrande Football School. At the same time, it is also specially stipulated that within three years of Evergrande Football School players being promoted to the first team, the maximum annual salary shall not exceed 3 million yuan before tax.
Is this number familiar? Yes, according to this newspaper, in the financial indicators of the Chinese Super League clubs to be released in 2022, the maximum salary of local players given by the Football Association is 3 million yuan before tax.
Previously, there were different opinions on whether the standard of 3 million yuan before the maximum annual salary tax for local players proposed by the Football Association was reasonable. There are a large number of voices shouting injustice for players, thinking that Chinese Super League players are at least the top level in the domestic industry, considering the limited sports career of football players, such returns are directly proportional to the high investment and high elimination rate before becoming talents; but many fans believe that the bubble in Chinese football for many years has led to the general high salary and low energy of players, and the maximum salary of 3 million yuan before tax is more reasonable or even less severe. However, even fans who hold such views will be shocked to see the "Notice on" issued by Guangzhou Football Club on February 16.
According to the "Notice", Guangzhou Football Club has set up four teams in the first team, reserve team, echelon and women's football team, of which the total number of first team members is 30, from the five levels a year and a half ago to set up four salary levels of "excellent main force", "main force", "main substitute" and "substitute"; the reserve team has 20 people, the echelon and the women's football team 25 people each, and set up the main force, main substitute, substitute and selected four salary levels. Among them, the club's first team's annual salary starting salary line is 60,000 yuan before tax; the "substitute" cap is 144,000 yuan before tax, and the number of fixed numbers is 15 people; the "main substitute" is capped before tax 300,000, and the number of fixed numbers is 6; the annual salary of the "main force" is capped at 420,000 before tax, and the number of fixed numbers is 6; the "excellent main force" is capped at 600,000 yuan before tax, and the number of fixed numbers is 3 - and this time all the salary limit regulations are no longer for players produced by Evergrande Football School, and no one in the team is an exception.
As soon as the notice of the salary limit of Guangzhou Football Club was issued, it caused a strong reaction in the outside world, and without him, the number was too amazing - it was amazingly low. First team annual salary starting salary line tax before 60,000 yuan, what concept? According to official data released by the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics in January this year, the per capita disposable income of urban residents in Guangzhou in 2021 will be 74,416 yuan (per capita disposable income is after tax); the highest annual salary and tax is 600,000 yuan, what is the concept? "Ten years ago in the AFC Champions League to win jeonbuk Hyundai, the main players in a single game each received 1 million prize money, and now the core main players are only 600,000 a year, this is not what the diving price is?" A Guangzhou player said helplessly about the club's latest notice.
It is worth noting that in the salary restriction notice, Guangzhou Football Club also put forward such a slogan, "To build Evergrande Football School into the cradle of Chinese football stars, Guangzhou Team should do a good job as a cradle platform." In an interview with this newspaper, there are also Guangzhou team young players who revealed, "(Salary limit) has limited impact on our young players, so that young players will get more opportunities to play." ”
Indeed, judging from the list of players in the first team of Guangzhou last season, there are 12 players trained and transported by Evergrande Football School, including Tan Kaiyuan, Ling Jie, Hou Yu, Wang Shilong and Yang Dejiang. These young players participated in the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League last season, of which Tan Kaiyuan scored 3 goals and Ling Jie scored 2 goals. Their growth has also given guangzhou fans hope.
But realistically speaking, at this time, it is indeed too early to let these players who have come out of Evergrande Football School play the main force. Moreover, Evergrande Football School has also had many outstanding young players in the past two years who have turned to ambitious upstart clubs such as Wuhan Sanzhen and Kunshan FC, and it is not difficult to imagine how the future results will be if only young players play in the new season.
Compared with the young players, the main players on the Guangzhou team are more helpless, "The result of such a salary standard is that the main players will terminate their contracts like several naturalized players and seek transfers." In fact, Guangzhou Football Club has also taken the initiative to recommend some of the main players of the first team to some professional clubs, but because the current league environment is not optimistic, the negotiation effect has not met expectations. In the context of the team's already unpaid wages for several months, the club's statement means that the departure of the next batch of main players is inevitable.
The recent situation of the Guangzhou team reveals two points of information: first, Evergrande is still the actual controller of Guangzhou Football Club; second, other parties want to take over the shares of Guangzhou Football Club is not unconditional. From the current point of view, how the future picture of the Guangzhou team will unfold will take time to reveal one by one.