After the official announcement of the withdrawal from professional leagues by the "8-time champion" Guangzhou Club in the Chinese Super League (CSL), many fans are concerned about whether the dissolution of the Guangzhou team will severely impact the "high-quality asset" Evergrande Football School. On January 7th, Beijing time, well-known journalist Pan Weili stated that although there will be an impact, it is not significant.
After all, as early as 2021, the Evergrande Group encountered financial issues, and in recent years, the football school has been operating on its own, achieving self-sufficiency. The school has even encouraged internal entrepreneurship, making full use of its facilities, dormitories, and other supporting resources, generating surpluses.
Of course, it is impossible to say that there is no impact at all. The Guangzhou team and Evergrande Football School were originally in a front-end and back-end relationship. With the existence of the Guangzhou team, more parents would be willing to send their children to Evergrande Football School. As we all know, in recent years, the Guangzhou team has been competing in the league with "Evergrande Football School" as its core. The Guangzhou team has indeed been one of the teams using the most young players in recent years.
It is precisely because the talent supply chain is very well-established, once they reach the appropriate age, there is an opportunity to play for the first team, which makes parents feel more assured about the success rate of their children's development. However, now that the Guangzhou team has been dissolved, the children from the football school will have to be transferred to other clubs upon reaching adulthood, making the chain less smooth.
Ideally, Liu Qian, who serves as both the club chairman and the principal of the football school, could register a new business entity under the name of Evergrande Football School and establish a brand-new team to start from the lowest level of the Zhongguan League. If the high-quality players from Evergrande Football School can avoid being divided among other teams, perhaps in 3-5 years, the new Guangzhou team will return to the China League One. However, it is certain that the new team will not be able to inherit the glorious history and honors of the former CSL "8-time champion."