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Now, the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League has all come to an end, followed by a series of news of the re-employment of medium and largest foreign aid. Gaulat officially announced the joining of Bajia giants Santos, Bakambu joined Ligue 1 Marseille, Shenhua captain Moreno returned to Colombian Medellín National Athletic... The departure of big-name foreign players began before the start of the 2021 season, and in this case, there are also many young players who have shown their heads in the league, injecting vitality into the season that has just ended.
A few days ago, the veteran team of the Argentine First Division, River Plate, officially announced that Quiinterro returned to his old club. In the 2021 season, after playing 21 times for Shenzhen, leaving 1 goal and 7 assists, the "standard king" Quintero chose to say goodbye, and the Shenzhen team did not intend to further retain. The trend of big-name foreign aid and naturalized players fleeing the Chinese Super League has continued from 2021 to 2022...
The 2020 season of the Chinese Super League, for the first time in the epidemic environment, the start time was pushed back and forth, until the second half of the year before the official start. For the first time, players and coaches experienced the cruelty of this special format, which of course included foreign aid and foreign coach. Coupled with the overall depression of the Chinese league environment, the problem of salary arrears has been repeatedly prohibited, the era of Jinyuan football has officially ended, and the big-name foreign aid has left one after another, resulting in the 2021 season, many teams are even difficult to get together with the ordinary foreign aid lineup. At the beginning of 2021, many foreign aides chose to terminate their contracts with the club early because they could not stand the closed matches away from their families. Dalian's Long Dong and Hamsik, deep-footed Preciado and Diego Sosa, Guangzhou City's Tosic and others have all terminated their contracts with their respective clubs before the start of the league.
As the league progressed, successive intermittent periods, as well as different degrees of wage arrears of various clubs, have not been resolved, and when the second transfer period arrives, the foreign aid of the Chinese Super League is lost again. Guangzhou lost the sea god needle Paulinho, and before that, Talisca also left freely. After the European Championship, there are foreign internationals who make direct local transfers, such as Arnautovic, the forward pillar of the Seaport team, and Svenson of Guangzhou City. Beijing Guoan took four foreign aides in one fell swoop this summer: Kim Hyun-jae, Augusto, Vieira and Fernando.
Until the second stage of the league restarts in December, in addition to the five foreign aides of Shandong Taishan, who are very angry about the championship, the only shanghai seaport that can compete with them is oscar, Mui and Paulinho. Beijing Guoan's Bakambu left China, leaving only Anderson with a foreign aid. Due to operational problems, the Guangzhou team not only sent away all their foreign aid, but also after the end of the World Preliminary Tournament of the Chinese men's football team, only Jiang Guangtai was left with a naturalized player in the team, and the rest of the Brazilian naturalized players also left after the termination of the club, and the team also played the second stage of the game with the all-Chinese class.
In the relegation group with a more urgent situation, only five foreign aides from Henan Songshan Longmen were in order, Andia, Caliso and Baptistang of the Wuhan team all left freely, and Muric and Akhmedov of the Cangzhou Lions left the contract. Among the rest of the teams, at the beginning of the second stage of the tournament, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, which can maintain four foreign players, are already a rare team with sufficient foreign aid.
The departure of big-name foreign aid is followed by the decline in the fame and value of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League and the change in the selection criteria for foreign aid. Quintero, who returned to River Plate, was the winner of the 2021 season, joining Shenzhen from River Plate for a transfer fee of 5.9 million euros before the start of the season. From tens of millions of euros to millions of euros, the continuous downward trend of the Chinese Super League transfer fee has begun in the 2018 season, but after a year of being affected by the new crown epidemic, it has become more and more obvious in the 2021 season. Under the restriction of policies such as salary restrictions and entry quarantine, the introduction of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League no longer focuses on the mainstream european leagues, but turns its attention back to South America, Eastern Europe and the Korean leagues that have always been good in terms of cost performance, and even the interconnection within the Chinese professional league.
In the winter transfer window before the start of the 2021 season, in addition to the Dalian ren and Guangzhou teams without reinforcements, the remaining 14 teams have introduced a total of 32 foreign players. Among them, only 14 foreign aid was really imported from abroad, and the remaining 18 people were all from the circulation within the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division. By the summer transfer window, only 8 Chinese Super League teams had added 10 foreign players, of which only Qingdao's Bardu and Beijing Guoan's Anderson Silva, Wuhan's Anderson López and Tianjin Jinmen Tigers' Vinović come from foreign leagues, and the remaining 6 are also internal circulation between the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division. The highest-valued of these was Paulinho Jr., who was transferred from Hebei to Shanghai Harbour. Of the 42 foreign aides who will be transferred in 2021, 7 are from The European League, 6 are from the Asian League, 5 are from the American League, and 24 are from the Chinese Domestic League.
Although from the perspective of fame and value, the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League has entered a trough of nearly 10 years, but with the reduction of expectations, the surprise brought by the cost performance has also appeared. Jia Desong, who was withdrawn from the loan of Wuhan Sanzhen in the Chinese League A, became the main center-back in the process of Shandong Taishan's competition for the league championship, he helped the team win the double championship with his outstanding performance, and also scored goals in key battles repeatedly, the 16th round of the Chinese Super League killed Guoan, the FA Cup final World Wave scored the only goal, and the 169,000 euros of loan fees paid by Taishan for him are definitely worth the money.
Throughout the season, Oscar, who has made 22 appearances and 11 assists, has remained stable. Already 35-year-old Yatai foreign player Junior won the Golden Boot of the Chinese Super League with 14 goals. Throughout the season, the rating performance was second only to Oscar's Sun Junhao, contributing 4 goals and 6 assists. Okore, the only non-goalkeeper to play in 22 rounds of 1980 minutes, helped Yatai finish fourth in the league and qualify for the AFC Champions League. These cost-effective foreign aides who landed in the Chinese Super League for the first time have become the dark horses in the league, although their fame is far from being comparable to the top foreign aides in the Golden Yuan era, but their strength is still good.
Changchun Yatai foreign aid Junior
Although the departure of big-name foreign aid has inevitably reduced the ornamentation and attractiveness of the Chinese Super League, on the stage of the league, more young people have been given the opportunity to show themselves, which has also brought many positive effects to the league.
Cannavaro
Guangzhou football team was the head coach at the time
As the head coach of the Guangzhou football team, Cannavaro, I know very well that if the game is won all the time, it will be very simple, and once it is not as expected, the group will make a choice. I am very clear about the group's goals and ideas for me and the team, and this year our group's signal and goal are very clear, that is, to raise soldiers for the country. As a coach, how can I not want to win, there is really no way, because our purpose is to train Wu Shaocong, Yan Dinghao, Yang Liyu, this is a clear requirement. (Interview time: April 27, 2021 Taishan vs Guangzhou team post-match press conference)
Jose
Head coach of Dalian ren football team
We actually played a good game, very methodical, but we lacked a little bit of luck. We don't have an advantage in terms of foreign aid, but our young players are also accumulating experience, they play very hard, and I think this team has a future to look forward to. (Interview time: April 22, 2021 Dalian ren vs Yatai post-match press conference)
In the 2021 season, not only one Chinese Super League coach expressed the team's desire to cultivate young people, but also many young players were trained and emerged. The 2021 season can be seen as a season at the end of the "Golden Dollar Era", affected by the tightening financial situation of the parent company, coupled with the impact of the epidemic, the Chinese Super League clubs that are accustomed to spending lavishly can only begin to consider the problem from the cost point of view, the first step is to deal with high-paid foreign aid, and the vacated position is naturally left to the local players.
In last season's top scorer list, 25-year-old Zhang Yuning and 22-year-old Guo Tianyu were tied for third place with the stats of 10 goals scored, not much different from the 14 goals of goals scored by scorer Wang Junier. In the case of foreign attackers leaving the team one after another, Zhang Yuning has become the most trusted firepower output of Guoan this season. He started 20 games, scored 10 goals and delivered 2 assists, ranking in the top three in terms of key passes and breakthroughs. Guo Tianyu is younger and more impactful, and his 10 goals are all completed in sports battles, and in time, it is expected to become a new generation of "air power" of the national football team.
In addition to the two homegrown strikers who are at the top of the top scorers list, there are many homegrown players who have shown their ability to take on heavier tasks after the departure of foreign aid. Gao Tianyi, who started 20 games for Guoan, became the main force in the team's midfield as an U23 player, and also gave 4 assists, Guangzhou's Wei Shihao and Yang Liyu performed steadily, and Yan Dinghao and Wu Shaocong have grown into the main force. Wei Zhen, a centre-back at Shanghai Harbor, firmly occupied the main position after turning 24. Jiang Shenglong, born in 2000, has gained enough room to exercise at The Two Rivers Athletics in Chongqing to prove his worth. These young players, without exception, have improved through league training, so many of them were called up to the national team by Li Xiaopeng after the league ended.
Zhang Yuning
A member of the Chinese men's national football team
We have a few more new young players on our side, as well as some of my former team-rinks at the Olympic Games. The desire they showed in the training was also very strong, and I felt that the atmosphere was very upward. (Interview time: January 2022)
Wu Xi
First of all they showed their strength in the league, and then they were very energetic. As a veteran team member, I also hope that they can be more strict with themselves in their usual training, and truly show themselves on this stage. (Interview time: January 2022)
It is worth mentioning that in the 2021 season, while maintaining the "U23 policy", the teams simply let younger players get the opportunity to exercise. A large number of U20 players appeared in the Chinese Super League, and some teams even promoted young players born in 2002 and 2003 to the first team and arranged them in the starting lineup. For example, Shi Yan, a young player who is only 20 years old, made a splash in Jinmen Tiger, and during his brief loan from Shandong to Tianjin, he quickly conquered the Fans of Tianjin with accurate shooting. In the Guangdong team playing in the second stage of the all-Chinese class, 18-year-old Ling Jie and 20-year-old Tan Kaiyuan also sent consecutive goal-breaking performances at the end of the league. Although the crisis of the Guangzhou team almost prevented the team from completing the second stage of the game, and the reserve team coach Liu Zhiyu led young players to play in the FA Cup, the crisis, crisis, crisis in the organic, the danger of the Guangzhou team is an opportunity for young people to get ahead.
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger Young General Shi Yan
As far as the 2021 season itself is concerned, from the fragmented game process to the result of barely completing the 16 teams looks a bit bleak, but just as the so-called unbroken and unbroken, under the crisis, the hope for the future of Chinese football has taken root in the soil of the league...