For reasons that are well known, this season's Chinese Super League has fallen into an unprecedented low, and many Chinese Super League clubs have experienced various problems in their operations. At present, only clubs with large state-owned enterprise backgrounds such as Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Haigang can maintain sufficient stability.
Therefore, it is not surprising that this season's Chinese Super League has appeared in the Taishan and Harbor Leagues. And Taishan, Shandong, which has accumulated a lot of money, still wins the shanghai seaport with great wealth. They beat their direct rivals in league and FA Cup matches respectively to win the Chinese Super League double again.
Judging from the situation of the clubs in the Chinese Super League this season, whether the former Chinese Super League 8 champions Guangzhou (formerly Guangzhou Evergrande) can continue to stay in the Chinese Super League next season is still a problem, so it is difficult for them to regain the strength to compete for the title in the short term.
The current situation of the traditional giants of the Chinese Super League, Beijing Guoan, is also very embarrassing, the 5 major foreign aides have all been released from the team this season, and most of the local main players have entered the end of their careers. The young players in the team have not yet grown up, which makes the national security team must fully rebuild.
The same problems with Guoan clubs are Shanghai Shenhua, a veteran of the Chinese Super League that has been building teams around a group of veterans in recent seasons.
However, this kind of team building idea is obviously wrong, and the league performance of Shenhua team in the past 2 years has deteriorated, not only failing to win enough ideal league rankings, but also delaying the growth of a group of young players with great potential in the team.
For the current Shenhua club, the team is also facing the problem of reconstruction next season, and it is believed that the team's league performance in the next few years will no longer be the goal of the club.
In this context, the situation of Taishan and Harbor domination may become the norm in the Chinese Super League in the next few seasons.
However, in the future Chinese Super League, there may also be a situation where Shandong Taishan is the only one. Because recently a well-known domestic football media revealed that the owner of the Shanghai Harbour Club, SIPG, has also begun to lose interest in investing in football.
As the most local club in the Chinese Super League in recent seasons, Harbor Club's investment in football can be described as the best in the Chinese Super League in recent years. However, apart from winning one league title in the 2018 season. The Harbours never won a single championship trophy again.
According to Xie Hui, the former assistant coach of the Harbor team, the harbor invested a total of 12 billion yuan in the 2018 season to exchange for a Chinese Super League champion, which is indeed too low in input and output efficiency.
In the case of Evergrande and Guoan's decline this season, The Harbor has also ushered in the embarrassment of regaining the Chinese Super League championship. Unfortunately, there is still a certain gap between the strength of the Harbor Team and the Taishan Team. The two teams have met 3 times this season, harbor 2 losses and 1 draw, and finally only got the title of "Double Asian King".
Investing heavily in the club every season, but not returning to a title, has made SIPG feel disheartened. At the same time, after the bubble of gold dollar football completely burst, the influence of the Chinese Super League has also dropped sharply, and there is not much meaning in investing in football.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that after Chen Shuyuan was transferred to the Football Association, the leader in charge of the football business of SIPG group was also changed. The new leader's love for the players is obviously not as good as Chen Shuyuan's, so the attention of the Harbour Club by the headquarters has also decreased, which has also directly affected the strength of SIPG's investment in football.
For these reasons, harbour clubs are likely to see a significant drop in investment next season. Whether the team's strength will be damaged by this is still difficult to say. But what is certain is that in the future, the harbor team will certainly not invest tens of billions of dollars a year. And whether Shandong Taishan will open a new "dynasty" mode from now on, let's wait and see...