The new year begins, and the new season of the Chinese Super League will also kick off, but the time covered by this "will" is unknown. According to Beiqing, the new season of the Chinese Super League will start on April 23 at the earliest and end on November 13 at the latest. Beiqing may be too optimistic about the opening of the new season on April 23, because the biggest problem currently plagued the league is not time, but access, or simply put: whether it can put together 18 teams at that time is still a problem.
According to the vision of the Football Association in the first two years, the Chinese Super League will be expanded to 18 teams in 2022. Therefore, last season's promotion and relegation rules were 0+2, that is, the top two in the Chinese First Division were directly promoted to the top, the third and fourth in the Chinese First Division and the bottom two in the Chinese Super League were PK, the winner was promoted to the Chinese Super League, and the loser was relegated to the Chinese First Division.
According to the rules, last season's relegation play-offs ended, with Wuhan Sanzhen, Meizhou Away Army, Zhejiang and Chengdu Rongcheng promoted to the Chinese Super League, while Dalian and Qingdao were relegated miserably. This is indeed a huge blow to the 2 football cities. According to the plan, the 18 teams of the Chinese Super League will soon start spring training to prepare for the new season.
According to the news revealed by Beiqing Daily, the new season of the Chinese Super League is expected to kick off as soon as April 23, that is to say, there are still more than 2 months left for teams to prepare for the new season. It can be said that the time is still very abundant, and it can even be said that it is too surplus. Sometimes, a surplus of time is not necessarily a good thing.
For the new season of the Chinese Super League, Li Xuan is more worried about the issue of access. She said that if under the current rules , wage arrears can't be admitted , then most teams can't get in because so far most teams have been unpaid because of slow foot improvement. Therefore, if you want to complete the access, unless the Football Association relaxes the access criteria again.
But media person Zhou Kaixuan sharply expressed his views: "If it is relaxed to the extent that unpaid wages can be admitted, it is simply the industry's 'rape is not responsible' behavior!" ”
Indeed it is. At present, in the professional clubs of Chinese football, most investors who owe wages can be said to have no fear. In the first two seasons, the Football Association can also use the salary confirmation table to card the admission of each team, requiring each team to pay salaries in a timely manner.
If even wage arrears are relaxed today, it will be a devastating blow to players, and future wage arrears will become the norm and even become the habit of the industry. In the long run, the blow to the entire industry will be devastating. Imagine a parent who would let his children go into an industry where unpaid wages are commonplace?