Special correspondent Xiong Zhecheng reported that "the boss did not say not to play, but the boss is indeed under pressure." In response to netizens on the Internet who broke the news that "Jiangbei Gate disbanded Liansheng and withdrew from Chinese football", Xiao Feng, the head of Jiangbei Gate Football Club and also an executive of Liansheng Group, made such a response to reporters, which is worth playing.
In the past three years, Jiangxi Liansheng has injected between 40 million and 50 million yuan into the team every year, but the results are not ideal. In 2019, the team rushed to the first place, from the 7th place, really thanks to the front of the team that did not play too much; in the last round of the 2020 Central League, Liansheng won the Beijing Renhe at the last moment and barely relegated; in the 2021 Central League, because of the implementation of the neutral name system, Liansheng changed its name to North Gate.
In the case that other opponents generally do not attach great importance to it, Liansheng invested up to 50 million yuan and was equipped with foreign aid, but the performance was only 5th from the bottom. The results of high input and low output for three consecutive years have satisfied investor Yan Yongmin, which is self-deception. You know, Yan Yongmin is now engaged in football is under a lot of pressure.
In particular, a Youth Super League match last year was beaten into a sieve by the Shanghai Harbor Team, which almost triggered public opinion. This made Yan Yongmin even more sad. One is that it has been under pressure, and the second is that the youth training of Jiangxi Liansheng has not been going very smoothly, and the results of the Youth Super League are even worse than the Yichun Ninth Middle School and Nanchang No. 2 Middle School in the province, according to the club staff, this is because "the athletes of this province will not give priority to the team in the province, and the support of the echelon system in the province is really limited." ”
Support in the province is limited, and the athletics are only one of them. Today, in 2012, after the then Nanchang Hengyuan unilaterally announced the withdrawal from Jiangxi, the movement in Jiangxi was not small. At that time, jiangxi liansheng, who was still playing amateurs, was now the champion of Jiangxi Liansheng, who received a request for help from the provincial level, with the task of "fighting fires", entered the professional league and played from the middle B. However, "I am coming to you", you are not a sea of stars.
In the first few years, the home stadium was in Nanchang, and the support given by the province was free accommodation for competition training. Since the parent company is a company registered in Jiujiang, the province is also powerless to support it. 4 years ago, the team officially settled in Ruichang, ruichang gave conditions, game training food and accommodation free, plus part of the tax reduction of Liansheng in Ruichang. This is equivalent to finally having cash support. But this tax is a flexible thing. After all, if you want to avoid more, you have to invest more in Ruichang. "It's actually about 2 million a year," Xiao Told Reporters. And this 2 million, in front of forty or fifty million, is really a drop in the bucket.
The worst thing is the two-year tournament system. Before, at least the cost of the home stadium had a bottom, but the tournament system invisibly increased the daily expenses of Unisun. And what format this year, it is not clear. There is also a detail worth playing: last year was the year of the change of county, district and city, 3 years ago, the leader who advocated the introduction of Ruichang, has now been promoted to Jiujiang City, and the attitude of the current team is still unclear. There is a news that has not been confirmed, Liansheng hopes that Ruichang can refer to Meizhou, give a little relegation award, not much, and ask for home budget funds, but this application report has not been followed after it is handed over.
"I don't blame Ruichang for this, we played in the Chinese First Division for two years, but we didn't play a home game in Ruichang." The club staff said that if you want people to give support, you must always show people the strength of the muscles, otherwise what can the red mouth and white teeth say to Ruichang? However, the indisputable fact is that because Ruichang is still a prefecture-level city under Jiujiang, it is no longer easy to get the support of Jiujiang City, not to mention the support of the province.
While the support is getting smaller and smaller, the social responsibility of the neutral name is not small. Although registered in Ruichang, Jiangbei Gate is the only professional team in Jiangxi football after all, and the team's slogan is "revitalize Jiangxi local football". "The boss likes football, but he takes 50 million out every year to do pure public welfare, why can't he do other public welfare?" Without saying a word, Xiao Feng sighed.
In fact, since engaging in football, the voices of disapproval in Yan Yongmin's team have been endless. In the past, Yan Yongmin took the "value-added for the brand" to the top, since changing the neutral name, the reason for "adding value to the brand" has disappeared. In the eyes of the rest of the team, playing football again has really become Yan Yongmin's "plaything". Yan Yongmin, 57 years old this year, still has the habit of playing two games a week, 7-a-side or 8-a-side in mid-week and 11-person on weekends. "No matter how much love, the boss always has to give the rest of the team an explanation, ah, now the explanation is gone!" Club personnel said.
After the neutral name, Liansheng is actually very much looking forward to the stock reform and looking forward to "433". In fact, the Chinese Football Association and the China Vocational Federation have also talked to Liansheng, hoping that Liansheng, which does not owe wages, can become the first stock reform team in The Chinese First Division and be a model model. However, Liansheng handed over the stock reform book and did not follow. The reply was that the county did not receive the so-called share reform notice at all, "At present, it is known that the territorial government of the Chinese Super League has received a red letter requesting to cooperate with the share reform, but the Chinese First Division has not yet issued a red letter." "The club staff said that there were no red letters, let alone the details.
On one side is chaotic Chinese football, and on the other side is the parent company that still needs to be developed. Affected by the epidemic, Lendlease, which is mainly engaged in supermarkets and real estate, has not been affected much in the past two years. In addition, Lendlease also has plans to seek listing, and the securities companies found also euphemistically proposed that the basic threshold for listing is to divest football - a project that only has no return on investment. This year, the total income of the North Gate, in addition to the Ruichang tax refund that has not yet arrived, is only the lease fee of Magloo, a foreign aid leased to Tianjin Jinmen tiger.
"At the moment we are operating normally, including dealing with player contracts. Even if you quit, the players' money is not a lot. Xiao Feng told reporters that on the 12th, there were already veteran players who had followed the team's middle division and the first division, and called the boss to offer to reduce his salary, "The boss read the team's WeChat when the nose was obviously a little sour, and I don't know if he can withstand the pressure of this time." ”