Under the blows of a series of policies introduced by the Chinese Football Association, such as player salary restrictions, club investment restrictions and neutral names, the era of "golden dollar football" in the Chinese Super League was finally ended this year.
When the Chinese Super League entered the "post-Golden Yuan era", looking back at the past 10 years, we find that in addition to Guangzhou Evergrande winning the AFC Champions League twice, it seems that there is no more value left for Chinese football. From this point of view, the real money and silver invested by various Chinese Super League clubs in the past 10 years seem to have been lost.
When it comes to the huge investment in more than 10 years, many fans may not have a specific concept. The recent FIFA (FIFA) list of transfer fees for various professional clubs in Asia in the past decade should give everyone a clearer understanding.
In this list, there are 8 Chinese Super League clubs in the top 10, while no club is in the top 10 of the Japanese and Korean leagues that are higher than ours.
It is also worth mentioning that the top 4 are all from the Chinese Super League clubs. Not surprisingly, at the top of the list is guangzhou Evergrande, the former hegemon of the Chinese Super League, and the second is the upstart Shanghai Harbor of the Chinese Super League. Behind Evergrande and Haigang are Jiangsu Suning and Shandong Taishan.
As we all know, last season's Chinese Super League champion Jiangsu Suning has officially announced its dissolution at the beginning of this year, and Guangzhou Evergrande (now renamed Guangzhou Team) is currently in a very bad situation, and whether it can continue to operate next season is still unknown.
Shandong Taishan finally regained the Chinese Super League title this season after 11 years of salary and guts, and Taishan defeated Shanghai Harbor, which invested much more than them.
Speaking of Shanghai Harbour (formerly Shanghai SIPG), they are probably the Chinese Super League club with the worst return on investment. In the past 10 years, the Harbour Club has invested no less in all aspects than Guangzhou Evergrande. However, compared with Evergrande's 8 Chinese Super League championships and 2 AFC Champions League titles, they only won one Chinese Super League championship in the 2018 season, which is indeed a bit unreasonable.
A few months ago, Xie Hui, the former assistant coach of the Harbor Club, spat out the truth after drinking, saying that the Harbor Club invested 12 billion yuan in 2018 to return to a Chinese Super League champion. This also made Xie Hui a figure on the cusp of the storm, and he resigned and fled to Germany to avoid the limelight.
So where did the 12 billion in the seaport go? Most of it is spent on foreign aid! Bringing in oscars from Chelsea, The Harbour paid a transfer fee of up to €60 million, while they also paid oscars more than €20 million a year.
Oscar's teammate Hulk's transfer value has also reached 55 million euros, his annual salary is close to 20 million euros, and the cost of the seaport alone on these two Brazilian foreign aides has exceeded 1 billion yuan in one year. Together with some other foreign aid, it is not surprising that the seaport invests 12 billion a year.
Despite the club's investment, Harbour has won only one Chinese Super League title in all these years. Therefore, we have every reason to give the title of "Chinese Super League club with the worst input-output ratio" to the harbor.
What is even more ironic is that chen Shuyuan, the former chairman of the Harbour Club, after taking office as the chairman of the Football Association, is the person who is most opposed to golden yuan football. After he took office, the Football Association introduced a series of policies to restrict club investment. The implementation of the club's neutral name policy has become the last straw that overwhelmed the Chinese Super League clubs, making today's Chinese Super League enter an unprecedented cold winter.
This season, with the decline of the two major league champions rivals Evergrande and Guoan, and the help of Chen Shuyuan, Shanghai Harbor's hopes of regaining the Chinese Super League championship have greatly increased. However, they were all at a disadvantage in the first match with Shandong Taishan in the second stage of the league, and finally lost 0-2, thus embarrassingly bidding farewell to this season's Chinese Super League champions.
It can be said that the failure of Shanghai Harbor this season is a microcosm of the failure of Chinese football this year. Chen Shuyuan did not hesitate to sacrifice the Chinese Super League, gambling on the performance of the Chinese team in the World Preliminary Round, but the national football team lost consecutively in the round of 12, and the competition for the right to qualify for the group was only a theoretical possibility.
It has to be said that the failure of the national football team in the World Preliminary Tournament and the decline of the Chinese Super League, as the chairman of the Football Association, Chen Shuyuan has to bear a large part of the responsibility. Here, we also hope that the General Administration of Sport can appoint a suitable person to take over the management of the Football Association as soon as possible, and do not let the tragedy of the harbor and Chinese football continue to play out next year...