Entering 2022, unpaid wages have become synonymous with Chinese football, and the national football captain Arthur Junmin has caused an uproar in publicly asking for salary online. In fact, in addition to the two champions and runners-up of the League Cup last season in Taishan, Shandong and Shanghai Haigang, the chinese super league more or less have the problem of unpaid wages, in addition, according to the "Yangtze Evening News" reporter Zhang Hao's revelations, not only the Chinese Super League, but also the Chinese First Division B also has a large area of unpaid wages, and even players with a monthly salary of only 3,000 yuan have not been paid for a long time, and the Chinese football professional league, which has been operating for 28 years, is in an unprecedented life and death juncture.
The new season of the Chinese Super League has been revealed to start as soon as April 22, but to this day, the Chinese Football Association has not issued a notice requiring clubs to submit salary confirmation forms. For the third-tier clubs of the Chinese Professional Football League, this table is the most crucial part of whether they can play in the league. Obviously, the FOOTBALL Association is also aware of the current situation of the club. Although the Chinese Super League has completed the expansion of the army this season, the participating teams have become 18 teams, but everyone knows that if the team that strictly follows whether it is wage arrears as the standard, the team that can finally obtain the admission qualification is estimated to be able to complete the entire league schedule in a home and away two legs.
The connivance and inaction of the Chinese Football Association are the most important reasons for today's results. In fact, during the 2020 season when the Chinese Super League is still in progress, many clubs have a situation of unpaid wages, and the new Chinese Super League champion Jiangsu team even announced that it would stop operating after winning the championship, becoming a black humor in Chinese football. But even so, teams such as Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, Hebei and Qingdao, which are recognized as seriously underpaid, still successfully qualified for the 2021 Chinese Super League. They rely on a salary confirmation form that is both soft and hard to make players helpless to sign, and the reason is also very sufficient, the club can't play in the league and have to disband, and then they can't get a penny, they can play in the league, at least there is a glimmer of hope for getting a salary. Therefore, players think about it, and can only choose to cooperate with the club to act, of course, the Football Association is also cooperating, and it is also very critical.
Last season, the Chinese Football Association issued the most stringent salary restriction order in history, the maximum salary of domestic players was limited to 5 million yuan before tax, and this year, the Football Association is likely to continue to introduce the strictest salary restriction order version 2.0, 5 million became 3 million, and the maximum salary of foreign aid was also cut from 3 million euros before tax to 2 million euros. Unlike last year's boycott of salary restrictions, most of today's Chinese Super League clubs have warmly welcomed this, and some clubs have even begun to implement and increase their own salary before the salary restriction order has been officially introduced, and the Wuhan team, which was publicly asked for salary by Arthur Junmin, claimed to discuss salary reduction with players, and the Guangzhou team, the eight champions of the Chinese Super League who personally opened the era of Golden Dollar Football, have introduced a salary standard with a starting salary of only 60,000 yuan and a ceiling of 600,000 yuan. Let the Chinese Super League players who once held tens of millions of salaries instantly become white-collar workers of the company, and even keep pace with the workers of the electronics factory. This approach seems to be in response to the introduction of the FA's salary restriction order, but it is actually more like a mockery.
The adoption of a one-size-fits-all salary limit, rather than a more flexible salary cap system, actually reflects the essence of the ass of this year's Football Association. Their response to the plight of Chinese football has always been a headache, unable to really grasp the core of the problem, and of course, they have not been able to find the answer to the real solution to the problem. In fact, the reason why the national football team has almost luxurious logistics support in this round of 12 matches is due to the legacy of the golden dollar football in the past decade, so that the Football Association is not bad at all. After this wave of salary cuts has passed, the Football Association wants to give the national team super luxurious treatment in this way, and it is estimated that it will not be able to catch it.
In 1994, the Chinese professional football league was announced, but ironically, after 28 years of growth, the clubs of China's third-tier league still do not have even the most basic hematopoietic function, and once the investor withdraws and no one takes over, these clubs will only have to wait for death. In fact, when investors led by Evergrande have poured into the football market, the Chinese Football Association has also got one of the best opportunities, that is, with the help of the good market situation and the enthusiasm for football that the fans have been re-stimulated, guide the club to further improve itself, get rid of the pure blood transfusion state of the parent company, and gradually have its own profit model, thereby improving the ability to resist the blow. However, at that time, the leaders of the Football Association did nothing except wear Evergrande jerseys in Tianhe to witness Evergrande winning the AFC Champions League, and the great opportunity was wasted.
One-sided pursuit of national achievements, disregard for the interests of the club, and lack of respect for the law of football development, Chinese football has fallen to such a point that managers cannot escape the blame. But even sadder is that we still don't see any glimmer of hope.