Guangzhou - Guangzhou Evergrande asks Paulinho to understand why he diadang move to Barcelona. Because the club still need Paulinho to win the league.
Paulinho is performing brilliantly with Evergrande. Of the 25 appearances in all competitions, he scored 11 goals. In Super League China, Evergrande feel really good performance Paulino. Luis Felipe Scolari's team is now topped the standings with 37 points from 16 matches, one point ahead of Shanghai SIPG in second place.
In the midst of Evergrande's busyness in the local competition, the bid came to Paulinho from Barça. The club offered 20 million euros for the Brazilian midfielder who then rejected outright.
Although Barca's offer has been rejected, Paulinho himself has not given up hope and still hopes his club will release. Because Barca has bid according to clause in the contract.
Related to that, Evergrande Chairman Xu Jiayin really understand with the wishes of Paulinho. However, Jiayin also asked the players to understand also that the club desperately needs it.
"Related to Paulinho, there is nothing to talk about until the end of the season, we understand his feelings, but we also hope he can understand the club situation, we can not let players go in the middle of the season," said Jiayin as reported by ESPN.
"Now we've past half a season and although we have to consider finances, we also have to think about the current team situation," he continued.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Paulinho and he certainly wants it, but in the middle of the season there's no way we can not let things like this happen," Xu insisted.
"Even though Barcelona are offering money, Paulinho is still training professionally and playing very well, that's what we call professionalism and I hope all Evegrande players can learn a lot from him," he said, praising Paulinho's performance last weekend which unfortunately led to the defeat of Evergrande 0-2 from Beijing Guoan.