Guoan 2025 has been launched! Sainiao is close to joining, and the new coach may still choose a European coach

Reporter Liu Xiangyu reports There is no suspense that Suarez's fate with Guoan will come to an end at the end of the 2024 season. Back-to-back big wins in the final stage of the league did not allow the Portuguese to continue the story with Guoan, who made the decision to change the manager early on, despite his intention to stay.

Guoan ended up finishing fourth in the league and were eliminated from the FA Cup, and did not enter the AFC Champions League Elite League, so they did not complete their season goals. This hard indicator is also written in Suarez's contract, so there is not much pull when the two sides break up, Guoan does not need to pay the termination fee, and the salary is paid until the end of the year, so that they can get together and disperse.

Suarez is a good man, and if he really wants to care, Guoan will still be in trouble, but he eventually left gentlemanly.

The definition of Suarez within Guoan is that he is a very professional coach who devotes his mind to football, usually in addition to the Daxing Hotel, that is, on the field and training ground, at most taking a walk in the park near the hotel. "Just because I can stay in the Daxing Hotel for so long, many other foreign teachers can't do it."

But a coach, especially a coach of Guoan, still has to rely on ability to speak. Suarez's tactical approach was conservative, and Guoan did not bring out the quality of his players for most of the season, losing to relegation teams on a few inexplicable occasions, and only playing attacking football in the final rounds of the league against the last team in the league, Suarez's lack of ability finally made the club determined to change the manager. When Suarez left at the end of the season, all the staff of the first team of Guoan Club went to the airport to see him off, and earlier, the club's investor Zhou Jinhui and general manager Li Ming said goodbye to him and thanked him for his dedication.

The end of one era means that another era is about to begin. So far, the new commander of Guoan is still a question mark. Several candidates are in contact, including a coach in Japan, a European coach with La Liga coaching experience, and an Eastern European coach with championship titles and European experience. Several parties are in contact, and the final candidate has not yet been determined, but Li Mingren has begun to speed up the process of selecting a coach in Europe, and from this point of view, it is most likely that the European coach will be selected in the end. This is also in line with Guoan's team building ideas in recent years, and successive coaches have been European.

The squad for the new season will not be determined until the new manager is decided, so everything will have to wait for the manager to hear, and in the meantime, the recruitment is only in the early contact stage.

At the level of foreign aid, Guoan has five foreign players this season. Fabio has renewed his contract, the striker is extremely efficient in attack and good value for money, and will still be the thigh of Guoan next year. Ngadeu still has a contract in place and there will be no changes to him. There are certain variables in the midfielder Guga, who also has a contract, everyone thinks Guga is a good player, but it has not been very bright in the Guoan system, whether it needs to be replaced with a stronger sweeping back or continue to use Guga, this needs to be decided by the new head coach, of course, Guga does not worry about his next home in Europe. Centre-back Traore and winger Adebenro are out of contract. Traore has been in a decent season this season, with Guoan's two foreign centre-backs taking the defence to the next level, but it is a bit extravagant to use both foreign positions at centre-back, so whether to keep Traore will also need to be decided by the new manager, and it is unlikely that he will renew his contract.

Winger Adebenro confirmed that he would not renew his contract. When it comes to Adebenro, we have to talk about Suarez's decision, which was formulated at the beginning of the season to focus on the wings, asking for the hoarding of six wingers, including keeping Adebenro, who has more distinctive attacking characteristics, and abandoning Kang Xiangyou, a decision that proved wrong. In addition, after Guoan introduced a number of wingers in one go, it caused a surplus of wingers, and Suarez insisted on letting Zhang Yuning play on the side, so that Yang Liyu, Cao Yongjing, Fang Hao and others had little playing time and wasted a lot of time. When the new round of reinforcement cycle arrives, the choice of foreign aid for national security still has to make a fuss on the central axis.

In terms of domestic players, several veterans have expired on their contracts. Captains Yu Dabao and Zhang Chengdong are likely not to renew their contracts, and Yu Dabao will stay in the club and gradually transition to coaching. Wang Gang and Chi Zhongguo are still variable, both of them can continue to be used for national security in terms of ability and state, and whether they can renew the contract depends on the outcome of the talks. Zhang Xizhe will be Guoan No. 10 next season, and he will continue to stay in the team.

Through the reinforcement of domestic aid in the last two seasons, Guoan has made it clear that the framework is mainly based on 97-year-old players, and the current team of Zhang Yuning, Lin Liangming, Yang Liyu, Cao Yongjing, Zhang Yuan, and Feng Boxuan are all 97-year-old players; Han Jiaqi, He Yupeng, and Fang Hao are 99 or 00, and the age structure of Guoan is very good, and they are basically in the age of fighting. The main reason for bringing together most of the international players of the 97th session to Guoan is that Li Ming has served as the coach of the 97 National Youth League before, and he knows the characteristics of the players very well, and Guoan has been tracking the growth of these players.

In addition, Guoan has completed contract renewals with a number of players on loan, and He Xiaoqiang and others will also return to Guoan during this year's winter training to accept the assessment of the new coach and strive to stay in the first team of Guoan.

Serginho, who has attracted a lot of attention from the outside world, is indeed very close to Guoan. Captain Changchun Yatai will meet the naturalization conditions by the beginning of 2025, and he himself is willing to naturalize, but the process is cumbersome, and he will strive to complete the relevant steps before the start of the league next year. Serginho is the highest salary in Yatai, if Yatai and Guoan reach an agreement, his contract will be transferred to Guoan, on the one hand, Yatai has reduced the salary pressure, and Guoan has also saved a transfer fee.

For Serginho, being able to come to Beijing to play football and join Guoan is also a step up. He can play in a number of positions up front, as a number 10, as a number 8 and as a winger, and if they can make good use of Serginho, they will make the front court more dynamic. In addition, in the latest edition of the national football list, Guoan has 6 people selected, and if Serginho can join Guoan as an internal aid, he can also start playing side by side with Guoan's internationals earlier.

Guoan is expected to close in mid-to-late December, and the winter training will be divided into three phases, but the time and place are not completely determined, on the one hand, waiting for the arrival of the new manager, and on the other hand, depending on the results of the FA Cup.