On February 16, Beijing time, Arthur Junmin publicly asked for salary from the Wuhan team, which triggered heated discussions. Is it that the players are ignorant of current affairs? Or is the club hiding the truth? When will the domestic professional football league become truly professional?
On February 16, Wuhan team captain Arthur Junmin posted a post on social platforms to publicly ask the team for salary, "When will the salary bonus owed to me be given to me?" You have to fool me! Force me! When I came in the middle of the year, I didn't ask you for a penny, I didn't ask you for a penny. Salary is what you promised to solve at the end of the year, at the end of the year said years ago, to the New Year before said years later, is this the corporate culture? I have no remorse for my hometown team and give everything I have. That's how you don't have integrity? Respect each other! Thank you! There are very few people in the world who do nothing, those who do something and benefit are in the middle, and those who are provoked and forced to become are in the middle. ”
Then, Wuhan teammates Yang Boyu, Huang Zichang, Tian Yinong and other players also spoke up and joined the army of salary seekers. Wuhan player Zeng Cheng sent a text in solidarity with Arthur Junmin, "You would have had your heart set on the bright moon, but the bright moon..."
According to domestic media reports, the main person in charge of Wuhan Football Club said that the club believes that the wages agreed in the contract have been paid in full. The "salary bonus" mentioned by Arthur Junmin is the winning prize and the peace ball prize, which amounts to one or two million yuan. Since Arthur Junmin is currently quarantined in Suzhou, the main person in charge of the club had planned to negotiate the money after Arthur Junmin returned to Wuhan.
On the same day that Wuhan players such as Arthur Junmin issued a document to ask for salaries, Wuhan Professional Football Club officially issued the "Explanation and Statement on the Adjustment of Football Investment", "encouraging players to take the initiative to lower their personal salary standards." After the players return to Han, we will cash in on last season's salary and communicate with the players one by one to discuss a new salary plan. ”
The club's announcement is meaningful!
In July 2021, Arthur Junmin's contract with Shandong Taishan expired and he transferred to his hometown team Wuhan as a free agent. Last season, he made 13 appearances for Wuhan. In the end, the Wuhan team successfully relegated as the 6th place in the relegation group.
In fact, the Wuhan team's salary arrears storm is not the first time, as early as the Chinese New Year's Eve in 2021, former Wuhan players Zhou Tong, Liu Yi, Jiang Zilei had sent a text to the team to ask for salary, accusing the club of malicious deduction. At that time, the club came forward to clarify: please ask certain players not to try to confuse the public by ugly performances.
In recent years, due to the scramble to introduce big-name foreign aid, the clubs in the Chinese Super League themselves have not been able to successfully "make blood", resulting in consecutive years of losses. The domestic giant clubs can operate normally under the continuous "blood transfusion" of the parent company, without affecting further investment. In order to solve the bubble economy of the league, the Chinese Football Association issued a "salary restriction order".
Due to the covid-19 pandemic sweeping the world, the 2020 Season of the Chinese Super League was forced to abolish the home-and-away system and replace it with a conference system, and the entire season was able to proceed smoothly. The economic downturn under the epidemic continued, and the Chinese Super League champion Jiangsu Suning suddenly withdrew, and in recent years, 16 clubs have disappeared before and after. In the 2021 season, except for Taishan and Haigang, all teams were once mired in salary arrears, and clubs such as Hebei, Chongqing and Guangzhou were even suspended.
On the 16th, according to Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou Football Club issued the "Football Club Player Set and Salary Standard". After announcing the termination of contracts with the five major naturalized players, Guangzhou team issued an extreme salary limit. The top team has a maximum annual salary of 600,000 yuan before tax, and only 3 core players in the team can meet this standard. From the top salary of the first team last year of 5 million yuan before tax, to today's 600,000 yuan before tax, the salary of the Guangzhou team has dropped by 88%. Last season, Guangzhou team has achieved the all-Chinese class to play. Today, the Guangzhou team has eliminated all 5 non-blood naturalized players in the team, and only Jiang Guangtai and Xiao Taotao are left with naturalized players. From the dazzling glory of climbing to the top of Asia in the past, to the current poor capital turnover and endangering survival, the huge transformation of the Guangzhou team is lamentable.
The wuhan team's salary arrears continue to ferment, and the frequent wage arrears of the club reflect a series of problems in the domestic football league. The tide of gold dollar football is about to recede, and the colorful bubble will finally burst.
If the football clubs are unable to maintain normal operations, it is not to mention achieving good results, let alone building the event brand. With the loss of big-name foreign aid, the parent company has successively experienced blood supply crises, and it is imperative to enhance the "hematopoietic ability" of the club itself and achieve the benign development of the team.
In the future, where will the Chinese Super League go?
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