The 2021 Chinese Super League season finally stumbled through the year. We have witnessed the joy of Tarzan winning the championship after 11 years, but also experienced a long period of stagnation, bid farewell to the familiar them, and saw the embarrassment of many teams.
Perhaps at the beginning of the season, many people thought that this was just another closed season under the epidemic, but from the beginning of the season to the end of the season, the entire league experienced a process that many people did not expect.
The value of the Teams in the Chinese Super League has shrunk significantly
According to the German transfer market website, at the beginning of the season, three of the 16 teams worth more than 30 million euros were 45.4 million euros in Shanghai Harbor, 44.33 million euros in Guangzhou and 38.6 million euros in Beijing Guoan.
The club is worth the second echelon, and the one above 20 million euros is Shandong Taishan 27.03 million euros, and the deep foot is 24.58 million euros. Shanghai Shenhua 12.78 million euros, Dalian people 12.15 million euros, Wuhan team 11.9 million euros.
The remaining eight teams are worth less than 10 million euros, while the bottom-ranked Tianjin Jinmen Tiger is only 4.23 million euros, which is about 10 times different from the first place Shanghai Harbor.
The value of each team at the beginning of the season
The team is worth at the end of the season
But at the end of the season, with the exception of Shanghai Harbour, which rose from 45.4 million euros to 52.43 million euros, the value of each team was seriously reduced.
The value of Beijing Guoan and Guangzhou teams has shrunk to about 20 million euros, and the Guangzhou team is currently worth only 20.45 million euros due to the successive loss of foreign aid, doubling.
Including this season's champion Shandong Taishan, it is also only 14.23 million euros, the value of the Wuhan team has fallen below 10 million euros, and the Dalian people have fallen from 12.15 million euros to the last place, only 4.08 million euros, ranking at the bottom of the Super League.
After 95, local players ushered in opportunities
The aforementioned decline in value returned to the game itself because of the departure of foreign aid, which also gave local players and even young players more opportunities to play.
Of the 16 Chinese Super League teams this season, a total of 163 post-95 players have played, contributing a total of 107 goals and 74 assists. The average number of appearances of post-95 players in the entire Chinese Super League this season can reach 10 games.
The Guangzhou team in the whole Chinese class is the team that uses the most young players, this season there are a total of 20 post-95 players playing, of which 23 players have 12, 95, 96 age group Gao Zhuanyi, Deng Hanwen, Wei Shihao, Zhang Xiuwei, Yang Liyu have become the main force or main rotation players of the team, can also play a vital role on the court.
In addition, in the case of the team encountering difficulties in the second stage, more young players also took responsibility, 18-year-old Ling Jie and 20-year-old Tan Kaiyuan performed well, scoring 2 goals and 3 goals respectively, which also allowed more people to see the ability of the team's youth army and also see their strength in adversity.
In addition to Guangzhou Evergrande, the Dalian renren team, which is dominated by young players, has also used more than 10 U23 players this season, and their number of post-95 players is second only to Guangzhou' team, which is 17.
In addition, Shanghai Haigang, Beijing Guoan, Hebei Team, Henan Songshan Longmen, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, Wuhan Team have also played more than 10 post-95 players.
Some players have become mainstays
Each team also has a relatively bright post-95 player.
Among them, the most eye-catching this season is not Guo Tianyu of Taishan, Shandong. He played fully this season, scoring 10 goals and scoring an assist. His role in the entire championship process of Taishan in Shandong Cannot be underestimated. In addition, Duan Liu Yu and naturalized player Delgado have also had a highlight performance in this season's game, ushering in their own small explosions.
The runner-up team Shanghai Haigang has Liu Zhurun, Abra Khan, Li Shenyuan, Wei Zhen and Zhang Huachen, five post-95 players. Li Shengyuan and Wei Zhen, who lost the U23 policy protection for the first year, also got more than 15 appearances.
Zhang Yuning of Beijing Guoan became a player on his own, and Gao Tianyi proved his role and strength in the game. He Xiaoyu, Cao Yongjing, Yang Fan and Wang Ziming also grew up in the game, and the club also made it clear that young players are Guoan's future wealth.
Niu Ziyi in the Henan Songshan Longmen team can be said to be the biggest discovery of the team this year, helplessly injured in the middle of the schedule, the second stage of the game is absent, but the strength of this player has been recognized, and the performance of the new star next season is also worth looking forward to. Chen Pu, who was loaned from Shandong Taishan, and Feng Boxuan, who was loaned from Guangzhou, also had a good performance this season, especially Chen Pu became the main player in Henan Songshan Dragon Gate, and had a comprehensive performance of goals and assists in the game.
Shanghai Shenhua's overall team is older, and the more outstanding and eye-catching young players in the team are mainly the defender Zhu Chenjie, who has been selected as a national defender. The other players, although they said that they got a certain number of appearances, were some distance away from the real ball to become the main members of the team, and their average playing time was not much.
Although the proportion of young players used by the Shenzhen team as a whole is not much, young players can basically become the semi-main force of the semi-main team, including Zhou Xin, Zhang Yuan and Yuan Mincheng, who only transferred to Shenzhen this season. Of course, among the post-95 players, the 22-year-old Dai Weijun is still the most eye-catching young player in the deep foot team, and he is also a relatively outstanding and rare young player in the entire Chinese Super League, becoming a young midfielder worth looking forward to.
Young players stand up in the face of difficulties
The three more difficult teams this year, Hebei, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers and Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, can only use more young players for objective reasons.
Hebei team encountered personnel difficulties, so there were more young players. Cui Lin, Zhang Hui, Zhang Wei and Liao Wei have also become the main players this season. Especially in the first stage, Zhang Wei and Zhang Hui scored a total of 3 goals for the team, helping the team to lock in the championship group in key matches.
Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, who also had personnel difficulties, formed a team at the beginning of the season and could only use young players, who eventually helped the team successfully complete relegation. In particular, Xie Weijun scored a key goal in the last game of the relegation group, once again helping Tianjin Jinmen Tigers to kill their opponents. In addition, Shi Yan as a post-00 player scored two very beautiful world waves in 4 games, which is also impressive.
In addition, the 26-year-old Barton, as a post-95 player in the first U23 players of the year, has also become an international footballer and has completed his appearance for the national team.
Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic has a young captain this season, 24-year-old Yang Shuai. This season, Yang Shuai has taken on various responsibilities on and off the club's pitch. And has been the team's main center-back, Yang Shuai has a stable strength, a stable number of appearances, and also scored a goal and an assist.
The other two midfielders, Yin Congyao and Dong Honglin, have also performed well this season, dispelling past fans' doubts about their lack of young experience.
Among the remaining teams, Cangzhou Lions, Qingdao Team, Wuhan Team, and Guangzhou City are basically to meet the appearance policy of U23 players, but some players have left a deep impression on fans. Including Zhou Junchen of Qingdao team, Wuhan team goalkeeper Wang Zhifeng, who became the team's No. 1 goalkeeper, and Zhang Xiangshuo, a lion in Cangzhou, and so on.
Despite the pandemic, the 2021 season looks a bit messy. But in this mess, the young players also unexpectedly got the opportunity to show themselves, which is also a little glimmer in the dark.
Although the post-95s are not particularly young on the whole, from the perspective of national brand name, the overall players of the national team are older, and the latest national team training list will also recruit more players, and these young players may be the new hope.
The 2021 season has officially come to an end, whether it is gained or lost, what will the new season look like after 2022?
Of course, we look forward to restoring the home-and-away system in the 2022 season, allowing fans to walk into the stadium, giving players a cheer and football with a more human touch.
It's just that the development of the epidemic is unpredictable, but we still hope that our love for football will not dissipate in 2022.