In the 2023 season of Beijing Guoan, the quality of foreign aid introduction is mixed. De Sousa, who drove high and walked low, and Ademi, who performed mediocre.
It wasn't until the arrival of Fabio Abreu that we saw some of the benefits of the signings.
Recently, although Guoan Club has been anxious about the qualification for league access, the pace of looking for foreign aid does not seem to stop.
According to the Portuguese newspaper "Record", the Beijing Guoan team of the Chinese Super League, coached by Ricardo Suarez, has sent a ** to the Rio Ave team of the Portuguese Super League against midfielder Guga.
He also said that the two clubs are now in negotiations, so in order to ensure the smooth transfer of the player, Rio Ave did not let the main defender and captain of the team Guga play in the league at the weekend.
Although the news that the Portuguese midfielder is going to join Guoan is no longer a secret, for the current Beijing Guoan, as long as the player does not complete the final signing of the contract, anything can happen.
Let's take a look at some of the Portuguese player's resume.
Gonzalo Rosa Gonçalves Pereira Rodríguez, this is his full name. Everybody usually calls him "Guga", which is also the name behind his jersey.
Guga was born in 1997 in Faro, a small city on the southernmost tip of mainland Portugal. At the age of 8, he joined the local Lusitano Football Club for soccer training.
Three years later, the 11-year-old was spotted by Portuguese giants Benfica and moved into their academy team. Since then, Guga has played for Benfica's Under-15, Under-17 and Under-19 youth teams.
Of course, he was also a player in Portugal's U-Series national youth team at all levels during that period.
It wasn't until 2016 that the 19-year-old Guga finally officially joined the Benfica B team, but he may not have been lucky enough after three years of ups and downs here.
Not long after he played for Benfica B in the Portuguese league, he suffered a major injury that left Guga rested for almost two years due to a torn cruciate ligament.
After returning from injury in the summer of 2018, Guga has lost his place in the Benfica B team, and even has very few opportunities to come off the bench.
In order to regain his form as soon as possible, the club loaned him to Panetolikos of the Greek Super League.
However, Guga did not play long in the Greek Super League, only half a season, and played more as a substitute, and he returned to Benfica B after his loan spell.
After two years of injuries and six months of experience in the Greek league, he hasn't received much attention from Benfica's first team. At this time, Guga was 22 years old and failed to enter the first team of Benfica, not to mention, he had not played in the Portuguese Super League.
This must be unwilling for Guga, who came out of the Benfica club and was selected for the Portuguese national youth team.
In order to prove his quality, he chose to leave Benfica B, and this was a turning point in Guga's football career.
In the 2019-2020 season, the Portuguese Super League's Famalicão threw an olive branch to him, and Guga was determined to seize the opportunity in order to prove his ability.
This transfer finally put him on the stage of the highest league of Portuguese football. However, in his one-and-a-half-season at Famalicão, Guga's form has been up and down.
At the beginning of his first season with the club, he was given more opportunities and started most of the games.
However, after the middle of the season, he gradually faded from the main squad and appeared mostly as a substitute. The situation didn't change until he left the team midway through the second season.
During his time at Famalicão, Guga contributed three goals and one assist as the team's number eight midfielder. Judging from the statistics of goals and assists, it is indeed not so conspicuous.
Of course, this is also related to his position and attributes in the midfield, Guga is not a traditional midfielder or a midfielder, he is more of a central midfielder, mainly responsible for the team's midfield ball and tandem.
Coincidentally, Guga's only assist at Famalicão was given to former national security foreign player Anderson Silva.
Anderson, who played for Famalicão and later became Guoan's outcast, was also playing for the team at the time, who joined Beijing Guoan in the summer of 2021.
In addition, in the 11th round of the Portuguese Super League in the 2020-2021 season, this is also the last official match for Guga to represent Famalicão.
Famalicão played at home against Gil Vicente in this game, and Gil Vicente's head coach at that time was none other than Ricardo Suarez, who had just taken over the team, which is somewhat of a coincidence.
Guga came off the bench in that game and in the end Ricardo Suarez's Gil Vicente won 1-0 away from home.
Since then, when Guga reappeared in the Portuguese Super League, he was already representing the Rio Ave team.
If Famalicon makes Guga after a major injury, he can regain the feeling of the court. Then, Rio Ave took him to the top.
Guga is now in his fourth season with Rio Ave and completed his 100th game for the club in August this year.
Although the team was relegated from the Portuguese Super League to the Portuguese League in the 2021-2022 season, it took only one year for them to return to the Portuguese Super League.
In the past two seasons, Rio Ave has basically been fighting for relegation. However, in recent years, Guga, as a midfielder and captain of the team, has maintained a high attendance rate.
Clearly, he is now at the heart of the team's midfield, and with more games and more consistent form, Guga's value has also increased from €700,000 when he first arrived,** to €3 million now.
At the end of last season's Europa League, he was also the target of a number of Portuguese Super League teams, including giants Porto.
Considering that Guga's contract with Rio Ave is four years until June 2025, and that he is in the most serious trend. Therefore, any team that wants to get Guga will have to pay some price.
According to some foreign media reports, Benfica Club and Famalicão Club each own about 30% of Guga's players.
In other words, no matter which club Rio Ave gives Guga** to, it will share the transfer proceeds with Benfica and Famalicão.
Whether Gujia can successfully join Beijing Guoan, the club must not only do a good job in access, but also consider other issues such as balance of income and expenditure. Judging from the direction of this recruitment alone, the club is aiming for the "captain" point again.
One of the important reasons why he is a "captain" is that the player must have strong mental attributes, but judging from the two "captains" of De Sousa and Ademi before, they did not bring enough mental attributes to Guoan.
In addition, Guga's technical characteristics should be a match for Guoan from his previous matches. Many fans say that Ji Zhongguo is similar to his style, and it is true that it cannot be completely refuted, and the two are similar in terms of size and ball handling skills at their feet.
However, in addition to being able to control the ball at his feet, Guga's forward ball handling and passing vision are better than Ji Zhongguo's in these aspects, and his set-piece footwork and long-range shooting are also good, and he is only 26 years old.
If I were to describe him, I would think Guga was more like a combination of Ji Chung-kook and Park Sung at his peak.
Under the aging trend of Guoan's main midfield, Chi Zhongguo and Li Ke, who is over 30 years old, will be able to maintain a high-intensity rhythm in the game for a shorter and shorter time.
Coupled with the possibility that Gao Tianyi may leave the team, then Zhang Yuan, who was introduced last season, and Gujia, who is currently close to joining, are likely to become the backbone of the team's midfield in the next few years.
In short, Guga, a player, is on the rise in recent years from the perspective of his form and growth trend. Except for one major injury six or seven years ago, there have been no major injuries in the past four or five years.
His ability has also grown through several seasons of experience in the Portuguese Super League, which can also be seen from his value.
However, in addition to the factors of injury and ability, the Guoan Club should learn some previous lessons, whether it should also examine the psychological quality and character of the players.
Dabro and Ademi are still quite negatively affected by psychological and personality aspects.
The reason for Fabio's success is not only his own ability, but also his ability to "get along" with his teammates, which has helped him a lot to succeed.