The price of the men's football team being eliminated is finally coming! It is rumored that Chinese football (mainly referring to men's football) will usher in the third salary cut, and the maximum salary level will reach the standard of 3 million yuan before tax. I personally express my strong support for this, but at the same time I would like to suggest to the Football Association that we must do our best to protect the rights and interests of low-income players.
At the end of 2018, the Football Association advocated the first salary cut, 10 million before tax, and the players selected for the national team could increase by an additional 2 million; at the end of 2020, the Football Association once again advocated the second salary cut, 5 million before tax, and the international team could increase by an additional 1 million; at the beginning of 2022, the Football News revealed that the Football Association intended to advocate the third salary cut again, 3 million before tax, and the international football team did not have additional explanations.
It is said that if it were not for the obstruction of the clubs in the Chinese Super League, the Football Association may have directly changed the "3 million before tax" to "2 million before tax", and "2 million before tax" is the highest income standard of Chinese women's football today.
That is to say, under a series of operations by the Football Association, the Chinese men's and women's football teams are only a little bit away from completing the "equal pay for equal work". In my opinion, the men's 3 salary cuts are completely self-inflicted, can not blame others, as long as the results are slightly better, will not become the target of public criticism: just say that this salary cut, if the men's football team can get a brighter place in the World Preliminary Round, it is completely possible to avoid the outside world's criticism, but after losing to Vietnam, they successfully "killed" themselves.
Therefore, the men's football team's salary cut is not worthy of our sympathy at all, if it can, there can be room for "decline". But I would also like to make my point that I hope that the Football Association will do its best to protect the rights of those low-income players.
Football players in any country, "high-paid players" are a very small minority, no more than 1/10 at most, and those "middle-income players" and "low-income players" are the largest group; the Chinese Super League does have many so-called "multi-millionaires", but it is only some players with international strength, and most of the players' income is actually only slightly higher than that of ordinary white-collar workers.
Previously, according to a number of media reports, the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division still have players with a monthly salary of 8,000 yuan, and some players in the Chinese Second Division even have a monthly income of only 3,000 yuan. Coupled with the slump in the league in the past two years, wage arrears are widespread, and high-paid players can still "eat the old money", but those low-income players really can't survive, and they urgently need the policy support of the Football Association.
If the Football Association cannot protect the basic rights and interests of low-income players, then the blow to Chinese football youth training is the most fatal: for those parents who are still on the sidelines, they will not let their children go to work in a line of jobs that do not even have income guarantees.
So my point of view is that the FA has no problem with this salary cut, even if it is reduced to 1 million before tax, I support it, but at the same time, can we introduce a "minimum wage standard"? At the same time, it is also necessary to vigorously crack down on those clubs that are in arrears of wages and help players to recover the arrears of wages. While suppressing high salaries and low energy, we must also take care of vulnerable groups, which is the most convincing football association, and it can also let those parents who are still waiting and watch have no worries.
Fans, what is your point of view? Discussion is welcome.