In this round of the Chinese Super League championship group, in addition to the FA Cup final rehearsal battle between Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Haigang, the most concerned game should be the hebei team and Shenzhen team, because this is a contest between the new and old local tycoons in the Chinese Super League.
The spending ability of Hebei Team (formerly Hebei Huaxia Happiness Team) in the Golden Yuan Football Era is even greater than that of Guangzhou Evergrande, and during the 2016-2018 season, the transfer fees paid by Ren Hang, Zhao Mingjian and Jin Yangyang, which have been introduced by Hebei Club, have entered the top ten of the Chinese Super League transfer rankings. And Zhao Yuhao and Zhang Chengdong, who were introduced in the 2017 season, were transferred to a value of more than 100 million yuan.
Due to the gradual decline of the domestic real estate industry, the parent company of hebei club has also experienced a serious financial situation. Since last season, Hebei has begun to pay a large number of wages. In order to stop the bleeding in time, Hebei team has basically sold all the players that can be sold in the past 2 seasons.
But even so, the situation of the Hebei team still has not improved in the slightest, and the club's salary arrears problem cannot be solved at all. Many players of the Hebei team have left the team as a result, if it is not the Football Association that pays for all the Chinese Super League participating teams in the division, in the second stage of the league, the fans may not see hebei in the Chinese Super League.
With the decline of the old local tycoons in the Chinese Super League, the new local tycoons in the Chinese Super League have begun to rise again, and the Shenzhen team has undoubtedly become the new local tycoons in the Chinese Super League in the past 2 seasons. After the overall package acquisition of Tianjin Tianhai players last season, this season Shenzhen team signed Achimpen, Kaldek and other foreign players who have proved their strength in Tianjin and Chongqing.
And The Colombian midfielder Quintero, which was officially introduced by the Shenzhen team this year, has become the champion of this season's Chinese Super League transfer.
Although the lineup of players of the Shenzhen team is now luxurious, it lacks enough team heritage, making it difficult for them to rise rapidly in the Chinese Super League like Evergrande in that year. After 21 league rounds, they have only achieved 32 points with 9 wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats. At present, their ranking in the Chinese Super League standings is even 2 points lower than that of Shanghai Shenhua in the relegation group.
In this round of the match against Hebei, in the face of a distraught opponent, Shenzhen only relied on the controversial penalty scored by Kaldek to win the Hebei team that was sent off by 1 goal, ending the embarrassment of a 3-round winless league.
Although the performance of the Shenzhen players in the game is difficult to be satisfactory, the acting coach Zhang Xiaorui praised all the players who played and praised the players for their excellent execution.
When Hebei coach Kim Jong-fu was asked by reporters about the penalty that the team was awarded, the South Korean coach did not directly answer the question. Just helplessly said "my players are too pitiful, I can't do anything, I feel very sorry for these players".
From Kim Jong-fu's words, it is not difficult for us to see the anger and helplessness of the South Korean coach. Because according to the regulations of the Football Association, all the relevant personnel of the participating teams cannot talk about refereeing.
And hebei team has been in arrears for more than 1 and a half years, most of the first-team players can still insist on playing, it is not easy, how can the head coach still have more harsh responsibilities for his players?
It is also worth mentioning that last season, there was also a South Korean coach who also said something similar to Kim Jong-fu, he was the then Shenhua coach Choi Kang-hee. After Shenhua lost to Evergrande for a controversial penalty, Choi Kang-hee once said: "I think our players are too pitiful, I don't know why there is such a game"
Now, Choi Kang-hee has left Shenhua to return to South Korea, and it is believed that Kim Jong-fu will also return to South Korea after the end of this season. Our top league has given these Korean coaches such a bad impression, I don't know if the image has fallen to the bottom of the Chinese Super League, whether it will still be favored by Korean footballers in the future...