Sports Weekly All Media Reporter Wang Xiaorui reported
After basically finalizing Xu Xin and Zhang Linpeng, it is well known that Haigang intends to introduce Jiang Guangtai. However, when it comes to the specific contact process, no breakthrough has been made. This Sunday (24th), Jiang Guangtai will be released from quarantine in Haikou. If an agreement cannot be reached, the game will probably deviate from its track.
As early as three months ago, Haigang was very interested in Jiang Guangtai. This is an open secret in the football circle. In fact, Haigang has almost become the only potential buyer of the naturalized international after the three towns in Wuhan scrambled for Jiang Guangtai. Perhaps the outside world still has doubts: Zhang Linpeng is about to return, is it necessary for Haigang to introduce another central defender with a similar role? Now it seems that this idea is not exaggerated at all. The former, who has been training with the U23 national team, is likely to be in the period from July to October this year, because the East Asian Cup and the Asian Games need to leave the Chinese Super League temporarily. If Jiang Guangtai is in hand, it can be used.
Jiang Guangtai has never publicly expressed his opinion on personal choices, but it is not unexpected to seek to leave when the Guangzhou team is in poor operating conditions and it is difficult to pay salaries normally. However, compared with other teams, Haigang has two advantages that can easily make some foreign players and even naturalized players excited: Shanghai’s unique city size and the club’s stable state-owned enterprise background. As a result, Seaport was initially well-received when a number of clubs expressed interest in it. There is even news that: in the initial contact process, the most critical transaction price was involved, and there was no clear figure outflow. This also shows from one side: Jiang Guangtai has not been able to negotiate his next move so far. The transfer fee is one aspect, and there are other reasons behind it.
The deeper reason for this is his salary. Although Jiang Guangtai has completed his naturalization, his annual salary for the Guangzhou team is about 2.5 million euros (there are also rumors that it is close to 3 million euros), but he still has a two-year contract. According to the regulations of the Chinese Football Association, if the transfer is completed at this moment, the contract translation clause can be activated to enjoy the original annual salary standard, but only for two years. Therefore, when it comes to the introduction of Jiang Guangtai, the biggest difficulty is in which capacity he implements the corresponding salary limit. In other words, if Jiang Guangtai is counted as a domestic aid, theoretically speaking, except in 2022 and 2023, which enjoys the original annual salary with the contract translation clause, the salary limit of local Chinese players will be complied with in the following years, that is, 500 before tax. million. Obviously, the gap in this order of magnitude is quite huge.
But if the corresponding salary limit is implemented according to the standards of foreign players, this may be the way he can accept. When Haigang first contacted Exxon, it was actually trapped by this. Because according to the “Chinese Super League Club Financial Agreed Indicators”, not only the personal salary of foreign players in a single season shall not exceed 3 million euros before tax, but the total salary of foreign players in clubs in a single season shall not exceed 10 million euros before tax. For Oscar, Mooy and Lopez, who signed contracts with the club before December 2020, Haigang has completed the split of the original contracts by signing supplementary agreements. But Paulinho and Mystorovic did not sign a supplemental agreement because they joined in 2021. According to the calculation of the second half of last season, the total salary of the seaport club’s foreign aid in a single season is said to have reached about 9.9 million euros before tax, which is basically equivalent to passing the line.
Since mid-February, news of the sale of Lopez and Mystrovic has been rampant. The implication is that the seaport needs to free up salary space to introduce new foreign aid. In the end, N’Diaye is considered to fill the gap of Mestrovic, and it is rumored that the annual salary after tax is only a little more than 1 million. And Jiang Guangtai’s expected introduction method is also very clear. An insider revealed that,If Haigang decides to sign Jiang Guangtai, most of the people who leave the team will be Lopez, and in terms of salary scale, the two are relatively close. It’s just that the latter has not yet found a place to go, but not long ago, he has begun to secretly send good news to Hiroshima Sanfrecce.
I thought that once the total salary problem was solved, it would be very beneficial to Jiang Guangtai’s transfer operation. But just recently, the Guangzhou team made a small calculation for players to leave. So on the evening of the 20th, it was reported that Jiang Guangtai was priced at a high transfer fee of 35 million. However, it is understood that this figure is slightly exaggerated. At present, it is indeed difficult for Jiang Guangtai to leave as a free agent, and because of his status as a naturalized player, the possibility of 0 yuan transfer is also very low. But the Guangzhou team is also asking for a lot of money, and the more confident news is about 20 million yuan.
Jiang Guangtai is destined to be the last climax of this year’s Chinese Super League winter transfers. Whether he is leaving or staying, going to Haigang or his team, the final conclusion is on the line. In the next 7 days, the future will be fixed.Return to Sohu, see more
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