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Wen | Lin Sen
Sports big business reporter
With Shandong Taishan three rounds of early coronation of this season's Chinese Super League champions
The curtain of the 2021 Chinese Super League season is also about to slowly fall. According to the views of many domestic media such as Qilu Evening News and Guangzhou Daily, behind Shandong Taishan's fifth top league championship trophy in team history, the club's equity restructuring completed a year ago was a credit. Under the background of major financial problems in the parent company of many Teams in the Chinese Super League, equity reform will become the direction for the teams of the Chinese Super League to get rid of the crisis in the new season.
Previously, the equity allocation of the Chinese Super League clubs after the share reform has always been a major controversy faced by the team stock reform. According to the latest news from the Shanghai media "Oriental Sports Daily", the latest version of the share reform plan of the Chinese Super League club will be distributed in accordance with the "433" model. Among them, the state-owned enterprise must be the largest shareholder of the club, that is, 40% of the shares; while the original shareholders and the private enterprises interested in participating in the shares will each account for 30% of the shares. However, whether this plan can be successfully passed or not still needs to wait for the final result from the official.
Shandong Taishan won the Chinese Super League championship again after 11 years
Smooth operation + season to win the championship! Shandong Taishan set a benchmark for stock reform
For Shandong football, June 30, 2020 is enough to go down in history. On this day, the State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company and the Jinan Municipal People's Government officially reached a framework agreement on the transfer of luneng sports shares: 40% of the shares of Luneng Football Club held by the former State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company were transferred to Jinan Cultural Tourism Development Group Co., Ltd. free of charge, and Jinan Cultural Tourism Group became the club's largest shareholder.
On June 30, 2020, Luneng Sports's equity transfer framework agreement was signed
At that time, many fans were skeptical about whether the Tarzan team could continue to continue its glory after the equity reform, but this doubt was completely dispelled as Tarzan lifted the Vulcan Cup, which symbolized the highest honor of the Chinese Super League, a year later. It is reported that in the first season of the operation of Shandong Taishan Club, the Jinan Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government held seminars many times and contacted the Jinan Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Jinan Cultural Tourism Group, Shandong Electric Power Group Corporation and Lufa Group to hold joint meetings to ensure the smooth operation of the club after the equity reform.
With the cooperation of the club's shareholders and the support of sufficient funds and stability, Shandong Taishan successfully won the 2021 Chinese Super League championship with a wave of 10 consecutive league wins. It is no exaggeration to say that Shandong Taishan has established its benchmark position in The Reform of Chinese professional football with a gold-rich Vulcan Cup championship trophy, and has also laid a solid foundation for future development.
Looking at the current 16 clubs in the Chinese Super League, only three are truly dominated by state-owned enterprises: Shandong Taishan, Shanghai Haigang and Shanghai Shenhua. And only a few have completed the share restructuring, such as Henan Songshan Longmen and Changchun Yatai. The rest include clubs such as Wuhan Sanzhen and Meizhou Hakka, which have been confirmed to be successful this year, all of which are local private enterprises as the main investors, and the parent companies of these clubs have invariably encountered operational difficulties, and their performance in the Chinese Super League this season is not satisfactory.
Meizhou Hakka successfully overtook as the runner-up in the chinese first division this season
Shandong Taishan's success in the Chinese Super League this season has highlighted the urgency and importance of the club's share reform, and also pointed out the direction for the share reform of the remaining 15 clubs in the Chinese Super League. Among them, Guangdong Province, which has the most active private economy and will have four top teams (Guangzhou, Guangzhou City, Shenzhen and Meizhou Hakka) in the new season, has naturally become the forefront of the club's stock reform. Especially in the case that Evergrande, R&F and Kaisa are all in deep trouble, it is urgent for new investors to intervene.
Evergrande, R&F, Kaisa or after the share reform
GAC and Guangzhou Pharmaceutical are expected to take over a Guangzhou team each
According to the "Oriental Sports Daily", Guangzhou and Shenzhen have set up a national football development key city construction leading group, and the main person in charge of the local municipal government is the leader. Among them, the equity restructuring of professional football clubs is naturally within the scope of the group's work research.
It is reported that the "433" stock reform plan mentioned above was proposed by a club in the south after the investigation of the working group. Since the proportion of state-owned enterprises in the previous plan once exceeded 60%, there is no final conclusion on whether the plan can be successfully passed.
According to the East Sports report, the three companies of Evergrande, R&F and Kaisa, the investment entities of guangzhou team, Guangzhou city and Shenzhen team, will basically be kicked out of the club's shareholder list after the share reform. Previously, Evergrande, R&F and Kaisa had all stated that even in the case of difficulties in the operation of the parent company, they did not want to completely abandon the football sector.
As for whether Evergrande, R&F and Kaisa can eventually stay as shareholders of the club after the share reform, in addition to the important factors in the operating conditions of their parent companies, it also depends to a certain extent on the will of the local relevant departments. Judging from the current situation of the parent companies of the three clubs, it is difficult to reproduce the above names on the list of shareholders of the club after the share reform.
In the case of large state-owned enterprises such as Guangzhou Pharmaceutical and Gaqi Automobile, which have the strength to take over a team alone, the news that the two teams in Guangzhou will merge is not credible. On the one hand, the merger of the two teams is not the first choice of the relevant departments in Guangzhou. On the other hand, large local state-owned enterprises such as Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, GUANGZHOU Automobile, Guangzhou Chengtou and Guangzhou Yuexiu are interested in intervening in Guangzhou football, and the Guangzhou fan market is also fully capable of feeding two teams at the same time.
The Guangzhou derby in the Chinese Super League is expected to be continued
On December 29, Wang Laoji, a subsidiary of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, launched a vote on his official Weibo to solicit the opinions of netizens on which team in Guangzhou it was once again associated. As of the time of this article, there were as many as 6221 netizens who supported Wang Laoji and held hands with the Guangzhou team, accounting for 73.5%.
Screenshot of Wang Laoji's official Weibo vote
Previously, Li Xuan, a famous reporter of "Football News", said in a personal social media that the difficulty of the stock reform of Chinese Super League clubs mainly depends on the actual salary arrears of the Teams in the Chinese Super League. Specific to the former seven-time champion Guangzhou team, in addition to the clichéd problem of huge debts on the books, after most of the naturalized players have been terminated, another difficulty will be how to make domestic players accept salary cuts and stay in the team. At the same time as the salary cut, Guangzhou needs to persuade the main players to continue to stay in the team. After all, the new investors hope that Guangzhou will still have strong strength next year, rather than taking over an uncompetitive team.
Shandong Taishan's successful summit in the 2021 season in the Chinese Super League undoubtedly opened the first cannon for the upcoming large-scale implementation of the equity restructuring of Chinese Super League clubs. Under the circumstance that the collapse of Jinyuan football has become an established fact, it is foreseeable that in the future, the collective entry of Chinese Super League clubs into the era of state-owned enterprises controlling the right to speak has become a general trend.
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