At eight o'clock in the morning, the "Football" newspaper released the latest news: the Football Association plans to issue a new "salary restriction order", the new salary restriction policy will be stricter than the previous versions of the rumors, domestic players from the previous 5 million yuan before tax to 3 million, foreign aid from 3 million euros before tax to 2 million, the standard has basically been determined, only waiting for the final details to be improved, waiting for approval.
As soon as this news came out, there was constant controversy among all parties. Subject to the previous national football team's brittle defeat to Vietnam and the fighting spirit shown by international footballers, it is believed that this salary limit is still not strict enough, and there should be room for decline. However, there are also different views, believing that the Football Association's choice to cut salaries at this time is not professional enough, and further attacking the sinking hopes of Chinese football will certainly expose many unpredictable factors.
It is undeniable that salary cuts are an attitude of the Chinese Football Association, and there are three original intentions:
First of all, whether it is the Chinese Super League or the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division, most clubs have the problem of operational difficulties, and the salary limit can alleviate this problem to a certain extent, so as to avoid crushing the club because of excessive financial operation pressure;
Secondly, the attitude of the fans above, the morale of domestic fans really needs to be stimulated, although the annual salary of four or five million, relative to the "golden yuanhua" era, has been greatly reduced, but it can still meet their idea of doing nothing and messing up their lives. Another pay cut stimulates a sense of crisis of survival.
Finally, it is to make domestic players or young players burst with confidence. Because since you can't earn a high salary in China, but you like this industry, the only way is to strengthen your ability and strive to go abroad to stay abroad as soon as possible. After all, once their ability is reached, there is no upper limit to their salary when they play in foreign clubs.
But the idea is really good, is there any unknown factors that the FA should also consider?
We say that the salary of domestic players is not high, just need to compare with the Asian League, although our national football team is only 9th in Asia (the latest international rankings). Like the J-League and the K-League, they represent the highest level of Asian football, and there are not many local players whose salaries exceed €1 million, like Jeonbuk Hyundai's Song Min-hyun 1.5 million euros, Won's 1 million euros, and most of the players are under 1 million euros. J-League Yu Kobayashi 1.3 million euros, Nakagawa Keijin 1.5 million euros and so on.
At present, our Chinese Super League players, in addition to foreign aid, most of the local players, are between 500,000 and 1 million, like several of the shandong Taishan team's home stars, Liu Binbin, Wu Xinghan, Jin Jingdao, are 500,000 euros, and the defensive core Zheng Zheng only has a mere 200,000 euros.
According to the latest standards of the Football Association, that is, the salary of domestic players cannot exceed 420,000 euros. Such a standard is actually a bit low.
The problem that ensues is the psychology of the players, we throw away those stereotypes of Chinese football, to put ourselves in the shoes of the players to analyze and think. Professional players themselves eat youth, and the golden career is 10 years of time, the rest of the time is either the beginning or the end of the career, and there is no money. Then they will definitely have war-weary emotions and negative psychology, why is the national football team's record not good, but let all the players to carry the pot?
Reforming Chinese football, salary cuts are only one of the ways, not all, and can not solve the fundamental problems, if you hope to reduce the salary to alleviate the anger of fans, this method is not advisable. What fans want to see is the results, if the Chinese men's football team can one day stand on the top of Asia like the Chinese women's football team, even if the "golden yuanhua" era is restored, the fans will be extra happy.
In addition, although the pressure on the club's operation has been alleviated, it requires the club to make more efforts. For example, how to appease the emotions of players, how to mobilize their enthusiasm, how to improve the rules and regulations of the club under the system of "substantial salary reduction". It is not difficult for clubs to come up with ways to deal with it, such as increasing winning bonuses and keeping players on a break-even basis for the year. In addition, it is not impossible to carry out black box operations on third-party endorsements. But what we need is the health policy of the FOOTBALL Association, so that clubs can operate easily without going through these means.
The Football Association needs to find the direction of the force, can not always blindly stare at the top league, seriously devote themselves to youth training, let more teenagers engage in football, sow seeds, this is the top priority. What we lack is a reasonable, healthy and stable system, as well as a set of implementable and operational measures.
Without grass-roots construction and only adjusting the superstructure, Chinese football cannot escape the state of deep water.