On February 16, Beijing time, today's Chinese Super League is particularly lively, and the most concerned is the Wuhan team. After multiple players publicly demanded that the club pay the arrears of wages, Wuhan finally responded tonight. Interestingly, in response, the Chinese Super League relegation team announced that it would change its name again, which also triggered ridicule from several media people.
First of all, I would like to summarize the statement of the Wuhan team:
1. The wages and bonuses owed to the players will be cashed out after the team is concentrated;
Second, the club will adjust the investment, will communicate with the players about the salary reduction plan, and the players who agree to the salary reduction can stay in the team;
Third, the club will change its business strategy and focus on youth training and women's football;
The most surprising point is that the Wuhan team said that in order not to affect the reputation of the city and make the team in the same city feel more fair and reasonable, the club decided to change its name to "Wuhan Yangtze River Team".
The renaming of the Wuhan team is unexpected, I think when the Football Association introduced the neutralization policy of the club name, it was hoped that the name of the team would remain stable and establish a century-old club, but it did not expect that the neutralization renaming work that was completed last year, and there were teams changing their names again this year, which undoubtedly made the neutralization policy a decoration.
The decision to change the name of the Wuhan team also triggered a heated discussion, and the media person Li Xuan expressed doubts for the first time, "Can I change it again?" ”
For this issue, the relevant policies of the Football Association are not clear. When the Football Association's neutral name policy, it only requires that the name of the club and the relevant enterprise of the investor cannot be the same, and it is not clear that the club cannot change its name again after completing the neutral name change. Therefore, from a policy point of view, the Name Change of Wuhan Team is allowed, as long as the new name meets the policy requirements.
This is also a "loophole" in the neutral name policy, once the club changes investors, as long as the new investors are not satisfied with the existing name can be renamed again, which is actually a departure from the original intention of the policy. Now that the Wuhan team has become the "first person to eat crabs", whether there will be other clubs to follow up is worthy of our attention.
For the renaming of the "Wuhan Yangtze River Team", many media people have ridiculed.
Reporter Feng Zhen said: "My God, is this going to affect the reputation of the Yangtze River? I really think the Yangtze River team is very good, but I shouldn't give such a reason. ”
Media people Miao principle said that the name change of the Wuhan team is to put the reputation of Wuhan city above the reputation of the Yangtze River, if the team does not play well in the future, then the Yangtze River will also follow the "shame".
No matter what name it is changed to, I hope that the Wuhan team can solve the existing problems well, and only by solving the existing problems can the club really go on well.