Tomorrow, the last round of the Relegation Group of the Chinese Super League will be played, and Jinmen Tiger, Chongqing and Dalian will stage the final showdown in the air. However, at this juncture, there are variables in Chongqing. At the pre-match press conference for the Wuhan team, Zhang Wailong, who has always been strong and optimistic, came to the press conference hall with a slight choking and said: "In 2021, this team has encountered too many difficulties, and I hope that the last game will become our most exciting game." ”
It can be said that Zhang Wailong's emotions are already a little out of control, and it can even be said that they have reached the limit, close to the brink of collapse.
Of course, Zhang Wailong's situation is by no means unique, his Korean compatriot, the head coach of Hebei team Kim Jong-fu, after playing deep foot, has not evaluated the game, but used pity to describe the player; when asked where the pity is reflected, Kim Jong-fu is directly out of the field. Thinking back to before playing Taishan, some players of the Hebei team refused to train, some players left the division early, and some players refused to return to the team earlier, and Kim Jong-fu was actually discouraged.
Promises are often not fulfilled, and many players in Chongqing and Hebei have long since stopped playing
The fact that the two Korean coaches, Jang Wai-yong and Kim Jong-fu, have been able to persist until now is the embodiment of their profession! Behind their limits, it actually highlights that the two clubs of Hebei and Chongqing are indeed the two most difficult in the current Chinese Super League. The difficulty is reflected in the time of unpaid wages, and there are three or four companies in the entire Chinese Super League that do not owe wages, but the two companies owe wages far more than other clubs.
Behind the long-term wage arrears, it reflects the dilemma faced by the club; this dilemma reflects to a certain extent that the investors of the two clubs, the contemporary Ming Cheng and Huaxia Happiness, are living very badly today. Especially in Huaxia Happiness, it has long been scorched by huge debts; under the severe economic situation, these two companies have long made the decision to give up football.
In the case that the investor can't play and the club has a huge funding gap, it is inevitable that the salary will be owed. Behind the long-term salary arrears, the mentality of many players has long been stripped away and they do not want to play for a long time.
Before the start of the 2021 chinese Super League, the Chongqing team did not enter the Guangzhou division according to the agreed time. In the first stage of the league, chongqing and Hebei, more or less because of salary arrears, there were some discordant voices. In the long interval after the end of the first stage, both companies chose to fool the FA Cup with the minimum cost; while the Hebei first team did not regroup until the second stage of the league was about to start, and Chongqing suddenly suspended training for a period of time when there was still a month before the resumption of the league, and then slowly regrouped...
Why is it that in the case of long-term salary arrears, many players have a hairy mentality and do not want to play, the vast majority of players in Hebei and Chongqing still enter the division? Part of the reason may be because they do not enter the division and have no income, they perform well in the division, and they can discuss the transfer with other club executives at any time; but the main reason is that many players in these two teams still hope that the team can be retained, and they have been promised again and again before entering the division.
However, behind the promises again and again, it is a broken promise again and again. In the matter of salary payment, when the players have been promised more than a dozen times, they have fulfilled once or twice, and the players in Chongqing are still insisting on it purely because of emotional factors, and they do not want the team to be relegated; as for the players in Hebei, they have long been relegated, and it does not matter.
After the mixed reform, it may not be better than the original, and the stock reform has become a new type of "scam" in Chinese football.
A few years ago, the Chinese Super League clubs had difficulties, and everyone was not worried, after all, a Chinese Super League shell was worth hundreds of millions of dollars three or five years ago. But the 2020 Chinese Super League champion team Jiangsu said that it was gone, fully reflecting that the shell of the Chinese Super League was worthless. The shell of the Chinese Super League is now free to put on the market, it is difficult for enterprises to pay attention, in fact, the clubs, players, staff are to solve the hope of the crisis, pinned on this state-owned assets into the venue led by the equity diversification reform.
This season's league champion Taishan is a demonstration case of equity diversification reform. In Henan, zhengzhou and Luoyang are mainly funded, or the original Jianye professionals who have been deeply involved in the football circle for many years are responsible for the operation model, which is also worth advocating. However, the vast majority of clubs that have completed the share reform are not as good as the original after the reform, and the most typical case is Cangzhou, which never owed wages during the Yongchang period.
On the issue of share reform, Chen Yong, a well-known media person in the Football newspaper, put forward that he clearly opposed the one-size-fits-all stock reform, especially the mixed reform plan, and gave 4 reasons:
1, some local governments are actually very difficult, you know, the real estate crisis and local debt, once known as the two major hidden dangers of China's economic operation (there are also voices that think so), many mixed reforms are the main body of local debt local financing platform to undertake, which is unstable.
2, some local governments do not have any responsibility, we can imagine that after the replacement may be very unstable.
3, at present, many clubs that have been mixed have problems, there are leaders who regret marriage, there are shares that do not pay, anyway, there are any problems, it is simply chaotic.
4, conditional change, no condition or should be the land on the ground, lai live is really not as good as good death.
Chen Yong's statement can also be summarized as saying that some places have no money, some local leaders do not want to play football, and some places are strongly supported by former leaders, but changing leaders will not count. And these three in the current Chinese Super League, you can find a lot of vivid cases. Local no money - Hebei; local leaders do not want to play football - Chongqing; former leaders strongly support, change the leadership does not count - Cangzhou and Qingdao (the first two years of Qingdao team are 7 state-owned enterprises + Huanghai Group jointly funded, this year the change of leadership is only one state-owned enterprise sponsorship).
When Chongqing and Hebei continued to hear the voice of stock reform, the result was said many times, there was still no substantive action, the so-called share reform was just another excuse for the club to delay wages for a longer and longer time. When players see that the local sports bureau has to fight with the club because of tens of thousands of yuan of electricity bills, what will they think? After many clubs have been changed, their lives are not as good as the original, what is the significance of this change? In fact, the so-called share reform of many clubs has become a "new type of scam" that changes or delays time in order to change!
Many clubs can escape this disaster, but 4 in the Chinese Super League have encountered life and death moments
Of course, behind the continuous promises in some places but not kept, we can also see that some places are acting. For example, Yatai's money is about to arrive, and the wage arrears can be solved at any time. For example, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, two first-tier cities, attach great importance to football, and the stock reform is on the string. The three Chinese Super League teams in Shanghai and Beijing have no clear signs of stock reform so far; but SIPG itself is capitalized and does not need stock reform, although greenland group and Sinobo Group are a bit tight, but the long-established brands in Beijing and Shanghai are alive or not, but there will be no problem in surviving. As for Dalian, although the stock reform is very unsmooth; but at the beginning of last year, Wanda used relatively tough means to let many players re-sign contracts, which is also to suppress the investment, and Boss Wang can play for a few more years at this stage...
Most clubs can escape this fate, but there are still 4 clubs in the current Chinese Super League that have encountered life and death moments; in addition to Hebei and Chongqing, there are two evergrande and Qingdao.
The reason why the stock reform in Guangzhou has been on the string, the future of R&F will not have any problems, and Evergrande has problems, purely due to the more than 11-digit debt between the club and Evergrande Group (many private companies invest in football money, most of which are hit by loans to the club). When many places were ordered to participate in the stock reform of the enterprises, even the local clubs one or two hundred million debts refused to bear, the premise of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical to take over the Guangzhou team, that is, all parties must first think of a way to avoid the tens of billions of debts. As for Qingdao, they are not only a large-scale problem of unpaid wages; Qingdao Central Plaza, the former investor of the Qingdao team, lost the lawsuit with the club as a guarantee, resulting in the club always having a large amount of foreign debt, if they can keep the qualification of the Chinese Super League, Qingdao still has the possibility of support; but once they lose the play-off and fall into the Middle Division, in the case of Manatee (Zhongneng) + Youth Island has also been promoted to the Middle Division, how can the relevant parties in Qingdao City fill this big hole in the same Middle Division?
Perhaps a few clubs will take the lead in the fast lane of stock reform, and other places will quickly copy the work to keep up; but when the Football Association has long joked that next year it is not as good as the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League A merger to play a big league, the 2022 season of the Chinese Football Professional League may be difficult to say optimistic!