Article source: Oriental Sports Daily (special correspondent Pengyou)
Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group recently released a recruitment information, recruiting football management talents worldwide, with an annual salary of RMB 500,000 to 600,000. This news shows that it is almost a certainty that GPHL will take over Guangzhou football once more. However, whether GPHL will take over the Guangzhou team or Guangzhou City, what percentage of shares it will take, how the club will operate in the new season and what the team lineup will be, is still confusing.
GPHL and GAC are in love with Guangzhou team
At present, Guangzhou Team and Guangzhou City, the two teams in Guangzhou, are in deep financial crisis, and the parent companies of the two clubs are unable to give blood to the football club due to operational difficulties. In the context of China’s football shareholding reform, both the Guangzhou team and Guangzhou City need to accept the Guangzhou Municipal Government’s shareholding reform work arrangement.
On the official list, there are several local state-owned enterprises in Guangzhou that have actively or passively entered into the shareholding reform of Guangzhou professional football clubs. Among them, Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals and Guangzhou Automobile have the strongest willingness to take over Guangzhou football. Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals was the investor of Guangzhou team from 2006 to 2009, and for four years, it helped Guangzhou team rush to the Chinese Super League. In 2009, following Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals withdrew, under the coordination of the Guangzhou Municipal Government, GAC once wanted to take over, but Guangzhou Evergrande took the lead. In the 2010 season, GAC, as a sponsor, bought the team naming rights and front sponsorship of Guangzhou Evergrande. The team was once called “Guangzhou Evergrande GAC Team”. It can also be seen from this that GAC has long been associated with Guangzhou Football.
At present, the share reform of professional football clubs led by the Guangzhou Municipal Government has involved many departments and state-owned enterprises. Which company will take over which club is ultimately determined by the Guangzhou Municipal Government, but Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals and GAC are the first choice for the Guangzhou team. Because the content involved in the share reform is very complex, there is a certain gap between the degree of progress and outside expectations. Among these state-owned enterprises, Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals has the strongest willingness at present. The recruitment advertisement released by the company recently is not only an initiative, hoping to give the outside world the impression that it is the Guangzhou team that it takes over, but it may also hope to use the power of public opinion to conversely. Promote the shareholding reform, so that the relevant parties can determine as soon as possible that Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals will take over the Guangzhou team. However, the “competitors” faced by GPHL are very strong, and GAC also hopes to take over the Guangzhou team. If GAC enters the field, GPHL may not necessarily be able to take over successfully.
50/50 shareholding is unrealistic
A few days ago, some media reports quoted an anonymous source from GPHL as saying that GPHL and GAC Group are discussing whether to take over the Guangzhou football team together.
Whether this news is true is currently difficult to confirm. However, if the two state-owned enterprises hold 50/50 shares each, many problems will arise. According to the new plan of the sports sector’s share reform, following the share reform, professional clubs will be dominated by state-owned enterprises. From the proportion of club equity to club operations, state-owned enterprises have the final say. If the two companies account for 50/50, there will inevitably be a problem in the future management and operation of the club where everyone wants to have the final say, and no one has the final say. Both GPHL and GAC are the world’s top 500 companies, and they are very powerful. Both companies definitely hope that they can play a leading role. In the previous Evergrande team, Evergrande Group and Ali Group each held half of the club’s equity for a period of time, but then Evergrande increased its capital and took back more shares.
Judging from the information disclosed by the members of the Guangzhou share reform team, GPHL and GAC took over the Guangzhou team at the same time. There is no conclusion as to which side is in charge. It is reported that GPHL has made frequent moves recently, showing that the company is determined to gain the dominance of the Guangzhou team. Thinking of Li Chuyuan, chairman of GPHL, who publicly stated his intention to reconnect with Guangzhou football at the Guangzhou Party Congress in December last year, GPHL obviously hopes to overwhelm GAC. There are various indications that GPHL is temporarily in the leading position in this competition for the equity of Guangzhou Football Club.
The team’s departure and stay have not yet been put on the agenda
On the one hand, the development of the club’s stock market is slow, and on the other hand, the team members are anxious.
After the end of the 2021 Chinese Super League season, the Guangzhou team is currently on vacation, but the players and staff are concerned regarding the “clues” of the club and the team’s shareholding reform. In October last year, the contract between the midfielder Liao Lisheng and the club came to an end. Taking into account the possibility of maintaining his state and the possibility of a subsequent transfer, Liao Lisheng participated in the team’s training and competition without any contract. Mei Fang’s contract with the Guangzhou team expired on December 31 last year, and he also left the team following the team played the final round on January 4.
Zheng Zhi, Huang Bowen, Li Xuepeng, Deng Hanwen and other players have expired contracts with the Guangzhou team. The 42-year-old Zheng Zhi’s contract with the team has become a one-year contract many years ago. After the start of the second stage of the Chinese Super League, the 34-year-old Huang Bowen has transformed and became Zheng Zhi’s first assistant, but he has not yet. Obtain a coaching certificate, but also do not have the qualifications to coach. Even following the club’s shareholding reform, Huang Bowen, who has been plagued by injuries, will find it difficult to win the Guangzhou team’s contract once more. It is reported that several veterans in the Guangzhou team are waiting for the confirmation of new investors, and are also contacting other clubs to see if there is a possibility of a transfer.
Guangzhou Football Club’s current investor, Evergrande Group, is also waiting for the progress of the shareholding reform. A share reform plan proposed earlier is 433, which is to leave 30% of the equity to the original investors. Although Evergrande Group has been unable to transfuse blood for the club, it is not willing to give up the football club and team completely. In the absence of clear stock improvement development, potential owners such as Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals have not yet taken over the management of the club, so it is impossible to put the players’ departure and retention on the agenda.Return to Sohu, see more
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