Beijing time on December 31, Shanghai SIPG officially announced that the team’s head coach, Mr. Z1z Pereira, , has resigned. The team thanked Pereira for his efforts over the past three seasons. In the past three seasons, he won a Chinese Super League championship and a Super Cup championship for the team, breaking the Chinese Super League monopoly of Guangzhou Evergrande. In the past ten years, these two teams are also the most successful representatives of Jinyuan football.
In the announcement of Shanghai SIPG, the club reviewed the past with the head coach Pereira. In the past three years, under the leadership of Pei Shuai, SIPG won the 2018 Chinese Super League and the 2019 Chinese Football Association Super Cup, creating the best record in team history and winning honor for Shanghai. Pereira himself won the 2019 Shanghai "Magnolia Memorial Award", representing that he is an outstanding foreigner recognized by the city.
Only from the perspective of performance, Pereira was successful during the lead period and deserves recognition. However, in the previous meeting of the Chinese Football Association, the most stringent salary limit was issued, so the departure of the high-paying Hulk and Pereira is also a matter of course. After all, in next year’s club budget, each team’s Expenses are limited to 600 million yuan, so Pereira's get out of class is likely to be related to it.
Looking back on the golden dollar football model of Chinese football, it first started in Guangzhou Evergrande, and subsequently led many teams to follow this model. However, in the past ten years in the Super League, the only successful teams were Guangzhou Evergrande, the ancestor, and Shanghai SIPG, which increased investment later. The latter has introduced Hulk, Oscar, Exxon, Anautovic and other big-name players under the Jinyuan football model. These top players also brought Shanghai SIPG the first Chinese Super League championship in team history. .
However, currently Cannavaro has been emptied by Guangzhou Evergrande, and is likely to be dismissed after returning to China; Shanghai SIPG is also following the shoot, Pereira's three-game losing streak in the AFC has ended. On the other hand, big-name players are also fleeing, including players such as Zahavi and Hulk and Carrasco have left the Super League.
Judging from these incidents, perhaps the Chinese Super League’s Jinyuan football has already experienced a rapid cooling under the ultra-strict salary limit. In the context of limited salary and capital, the Super League is experiencing its biggest turbulent period in a decade. If there is a cold winter, perhaps in the 2021 Super League, we will be able to see the league with the lowest star taste in the past decade.
