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Xia Haoyang rarely went out this winter.

In addition to going to the studio twice a week, I also visit the Guoan Club from time to time.

This year was a successful season for the Guoan Club. Although it did not win the Chinese Super League championship, the suspense of the championship remained until the last round, and Guoan ranked second in the league with one point difference.

The Chinese football league usually starts in March and ends in November each year, unlike European and American leagues that span the New Year. This is also related to the actual situation in China, that is, the temperature in most parts of the north is too cold in winter, which is not conducive to the development of football. This is different from the Mediterranean climate in Western Europe, which is warm and rainy in winter.

Last year, Guoan’s winter training started at the Hongta base in southern Yunnan, and experienced a change of coach and the retirement or departure of as many as seven main players.

However, with the united efforts of the whole club, the team did not experience any fluctuations in performance. On the contrary, some young players grew up and gradually gained a foothold in the first team.

In the two years since taking over the Guoan Club, there have been no unusual personnel changes in the club. The previous management team has been retained and fully trusted, which has also created conditions for the club to maintain stable development.

Of course, the more important reason why the club has been able to develop steadily in the past two years is Xia Haoyang's annual investment of up to 500 million yuan. Today, when various funds are gradually moving away from Chinese football, Xia Haoyang's continuous and stable investment in the Guoan Club is becoming more and more valuable.

In the first year that Xia Haoyang took over, the Guoan Club ranked fourth in the league; this year it is the runner-up in the league, and in the Asian Champions League, the Guoan Club also made it to the semi-finals, unfortunately losing to a Saudi Arabian team that was heavily invested in by the money-driven football, which was once the label of Chinese football.

Now that it can maintain a stable investment of 500 million yuan every year and has no wage arrears issues, the Guoan Club has become a leader in Chinese football.

"Mr. Xia, if we can buy an excellent defensive midfielder next season while basically retaining the first-team lineup, I think there is a high chance that we will challenge for the league championship." As the general manager of the club, Ma Yi reported this year's annual work report to Xia Haoyang.

Although he said a lot of things excitedly, Xia Haoyang remained silent and his face was cold, which made Mr. Ma quite anxious.

In fact, Mr. Ma’s anxious mentality is understandable, because the world is different now.

If the club still relies on CITIC as before, President Ma will not be anxious. Even if the economic downturn means worse benefits, as long as the company does not collapse, it will definitely maintain the most basic investment. This is the responsibility and credibility of state-owned enterprises.

But now the club is in the hands of Xia Haoyang. It is up to him to decide whether to invest or not. In recent years, there have been many personal investments in football, but they disappeared in a few years. Yin Jiaxu's investment in Daxiang Football Team is still vivid in my mind. Daxiang Football Team was very popular under Boss Yin, but so what? Now it still cannot escape the fate of bankruptcy, dissolution and liquidation.

Personal capital investment in football focuses on returns, which is the so-called KPI (key performance indicator), and the performance that personal capital focuses on is generally aimed at medium- and short-term returns. Xia Haoyang has invested 1 billion yuan in real money in the club in the past two years, but what has the club given him in return?

Did it bring him reputational benefits, advertising effects, or did it promote the development of his business?

nothing!

So Mr. Ma is panicking.

I was worried that Xia Haoyang would say: I don't want to play next year, I want to leave. After all, Chinese football is in a real winter, and no matter what kind of capital is willing to enter the game easily, it is difficult to find a suitable buyer with Guoan's current scale and investment.

Moreover, personal capital investment in football has a common feature: at the beginning, they are full of enthusiasm and will make various promises to the club and fans, describing a bright future, which is commonly known as "painting the pie in the sky". However, after experiencing a few years of beatings, they begin to become rational, then numb, and finally desperate, and leave decisively.

As the saying goes, once you get into football, it's like entering a deep sea. From then on, Xiao Lang is just a passerby.

So what stage is Xia Haoyang at now? Mr. Ma is not sure.

Faced with the prospect of a "bright future" that he had just envisioned, he remained silent and his eyes were cold. Although the office was well heated, Ma Yi's back felt cold.

So is Xia Haoyang really hesitating about giving up the Guoan Club?

The fact is that Mr. Ma said a lot of things just now, but Xia Haoyang didn't listen to it all. He was distracted.

When he was counting the number of appearances of the club's first-team members this season, he saw Cao Minyou's name, and this name reminded him of Zhu Suya.

So, when President Ma was hesitating over the club's investment for next year, Xia Haoyang was considering whether now was a good time to invite Zhu Suya and Quan Wenxin back to the company.

If you want to invite the two back, you must first get their consent, and then get the consent of the company, such as Juzi, Lao Xie, Zhao Yishen, Xiao Liu and others, as well as Minzhi, Qin Jiali, Xiao Mengyan and others.

In the past two years, Xia Haoyang and Zeng Jingyi had occasionally mentioned the topic of wanting to invite Zhu Suya and Quan Wenxin back to the company, but everyone seemed to be uninterested and noncommittal, so was it necessary for him to force them to return? If their return caused a rift in other people's hearts, then what was the point of doing so?

Therefore, if you really want to do this, you must first communicate well with the entire company. Only when everyone can accept it from the bottom of their hearts can you start the implementation of this matter.

"It's decided." Xia Haoyang suddenly said.

Mr. Ma was confused, but suddenly became panicked: "Mr. Xia, are you really planning to withdraw your investment?"

It was only when Xia Haoyang saw Ma Li's face in front of him that he realized that he was now in the manager's office of the Guoan Club.

"What investment are you withdrawing? Mr. Ma, I am very satisfied with the club's performance last season, and we plan to make persistent efforts this season. What did you say just now? We need to buy a defensive midfielder, right? No problem, you ask the head coach to provide tactical requirements, and then the club experts will organize an analysis to see which player is suitable. Next year, I will first guarantee 5 million Chinese yuan for daily operations, and then separately take out million to million Chinese yuan as transfer fees. As long as it meets the team's tactical needs, even foreign big-name stars can be considered. Next year will be the best time for our Guoan Club to compete for the league championship!"

"Mr. Xia, do you mean to continue investing? And to increase investment? Thank you Mr. Xia for your support. Thank you very much for your support. With your statement, our Guoan has great hope of competing for the championship next year."

Ma Li was ecstatic.