It should be said that Shandong Luneng and Guangzhou Evergrande are not short of money, and they are not ordinary. It is no longer important to compare who is richer than whom. Money is just a number for each club. What is important is whether the money can be spent wisely. In professional football, spending money is also a science! !

Let me first explain why there is no need to compare the assets of the two clubs. If you look at it from the club's perspective alone, the assets of both clubs are negative. Except for clubs like Liaoning Football Club, few clubs in Chinese football are profitable. The main source of income each year comes from sponsors.

Shandong Luneng’s sponsor is State Grid Shandong Electric Power Group, while Guangzhou Evergrande’s sponsor is their parent company, Guangzhou Evergrande Group, and Taobao. One is a leading state-owned enterprise, and the other is among the top 500 private companies. Money is not an issue for the sponsors behind the two clubs, the issue is how much money they are willing to spend on football. Fortunately, Shandong Luneng and Guangzhou Evergrande are not stingy in their investment in football.

If football problems could be solved by spending money, then Chinese football would already be number one in the world. The difference lies in how to spend money, especially in football. Spending money is definitely a highly technical job.

Luneng is in the first half of the Chinese Super League. It is a wealthy team and a frequent winner of championships. In addition, they are also willing to invest in youth training. Now Luneng has begun to taste the benefits. As for Evergrande, it adheres to the superstar strategy and adopts a high-quality strategy for both foreign and domestic aid. Since 2011, the Chinese Super League has won seven consecutive championships and one runner-up.

It should be said that both Shandong Luneng and Guangzhou Evergrande are the type of players in Chinese football.

In fact, we can see from the trajectory of professional football over the years that Luneng Club has always been standardized and has a stable structure, and can become a benchmark for state-owned football. Evergrande Club keeps pace with the times, dares to think and act, and can become a model of privately funded football. Although the two clubs have different capital structures, they have reached the same goal by different routes, and both have undoubtedly achieved great success on the pitch.