Since the beginning of last year, the Chinese Super League has been in a period of turmoil, many clubs have been plagued by funds, the 2020 Chinese Super League champions have no choice but to quit, and then a large wave of teams have rumors of salary arrears, many teams have barely gritted their teeth and insisted, because the "stock reform" has made many teams see the hope of sustainable development. Now in 2022, the Chinese Super League ushered in a more difficult moment, and the Guangzhou team has become very helpless, passively dominating the arrival of an era, that is, the era of substantial salary cuts.
Guangzhou team has recently officially announced that it has "forced away" a number of high-paid players, confirming that the 5 major naturalized players Axon, Gaulat, Alan, Fernando, and Luo Guofuquan have terminated their contracts, they are the 5 highest paid in Guangzhou, and they are all in the contract period, and the termination is a passive choice for Guangzhou team's financial troubles. Because the Guangzhou team itself has little money, they boldly cut salaries, exposed the salary budget of the new season, will continue to force high-paid players to terminate or reduce salaries, according to reports, Guangzhou team's top salary players in the new season only have 3 places, and the annual salary is only 600,000 before tax, and the annual salary of other players generally does not exceed 150,000 before tax.
Such a phenomenon means that the other first-team main players of the Guangzhou team will basically be forced away, although there is a contract in the body, mastering the contract initiative, but in the face of the Guangzhou team that already has a salary arrears, they do not have much to do. According to reporter Chen Yong's report on the relevant sports channel, the Chinese Super League multi-team will follow the example of Guangzhou team, force players to reduce salaries or terminate their contracts, and terminate the previous high-salary contracts, because the Chinese Super League teams and the Football Association want to further reduce the annual salaries of players, otherwise, it will be difficult for Chinese Super League teams to maintain stable operations.
Chen Yong said: Last year, I thought that the salary cut to 5 million was enough, and then found that there were more wage arrears last season, and the clubs wanted to continue to reduce salaries, but they could not talk to the players, and then they looked for the Football Association, hoping to continue to reduce salaries. This year, it was said that the salary would be cut to 3 million, so that the players could re-sign the contract, and the original contract was voided.
For such a development trend, "Football News" also gave a unique perspective, believing that in the end, the Chinese Super League team was equivalent to forcibly breaking the contract in the name of the Football Association, in order to achieve the purpose of salary reduction. At the same time, the media summarized the 3 major reasons why the club has the courage to reduce wages, first, there was a precedent last year, the Football Association opened a window to re-sign the contract last year; second, the entire ball market is very sluggish, many teams are on the verge of quitting, the players have no market, the pricing power has been transferred to the hands of the club; third, even if many players complained to the arbitration committee last year, they finally got the ruling, did not agree to the club's forcible destruction of the contract, support the contract to continue to perform, but the arbitration committee does not have the ability to enforce, for the clubs that are in breach of contract, There is no binding force or punitiveness.
It can be seen that the large-scale player reshuffle of the Chinese Super League is coming, the league will completely return to calm, from the perspective of national football achievements and player capabilities, the local players in the Chinese Super League are indeed not worthy of high salaries, and many people even think that guangzhou's pre-tax 600,000 top salaries are high.