On February 23, Zhu Yanshuo, a sports commentator from across the strait of the motherland, commented on social media about the sharp salary cut of the Chinese Super League, saying:
"It took a lot of time these days to care about football. It's not that I'm going to change careers (mainly commenting on basketball), it's just a simple personal interest, just from the perspective of a sports industry."
"Recently, I heard that the Chinese Super League is going to cut salaries sharply, which is not unexpected by me, and there is no opinion. But my concern is, will it lead to more fake gambling blacks? Although the match-fixing bet itself already exists, the player's income is reduced, and there is bound to be more temptation from this aspect. Some time ago, I saw some people questioning the national football team playing Vietnam, there may be a suspicion of fake balls, I think it is not enough, it is pure kicking! ”
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Although Zhu Yanshuo commented on Chinese football from a cross-cutting point, his concern about the sharp salary cut in the Chinese Super League: "whether it will lead to match-match betting" really has to be guarded against - because in the history of Chinese football, the lessons in this regard are not far away from now.
Especially after ten years of fertile baptism of "golden dollar football", our local players have tasted the sweetness, all at once so many salary cuts, such a huge gap, will we re-enter the "black alley" of the past?
Like the players who have been selected for the national team, in the previous year, they were also limited to a maximum annual salary of no more than 12 million yuan! And at that time, the players still had such and such generous bonuses; at the same time, like some international players, the signing fee was as high as tens of millions of yuan, which means that these international players, basically in the past decade, are mostly standard multi-millionaires or billionaires.
So, now suddenly from the highest salary of 12 million in the previous year, to the highest salary of 5 million last year, and then down to 3 million this year, which is equivalent to more than half of the past income! According to recent media reports, some Chinese Super League players have said: now they have to bear tens of millions of house price loans, and they feel very nervous at hand.
In the face of the abnormally high income of the past, it has now dropped so much at once – and it has also encountered the cold winter of Chinese football: if most teams owe wages, will anyone be desperate to take risks? Under the influence of human nature, or really as Zhu Yanshuo said, "it is difficult to say"!
However, let the income of Chinese football players be commensurate with their efforts, levels, abilities and achievements, will truly conform to the law of the professional football market, under the unsustainable enterprises behind the club, it is impossible to let the phenomenon of high salaries that do not conform to the laws of the market continue, so it cannot be said that there is a "match-fixing bet", so it is necessary to maintain an abnormal high salary unchanged - salary reduction is the trend of the times, and it also matches the pay and performance of Chinese players!
The fear of "match-fixing and gambling" actually exists in professional football matches all over the world, and it cannot be completely eliminated, but why do these ugly phenomena rarely appear in The Europa League now?
In fact, not all the players there are high salaries, in fact, the salaries of many European and American second- and third-tier leagues and their players are far from the salaries of the Chinese Super League - like the players who returned to the Brazilian league from the Chinese Super League, their income is only a fraction of that of the Chinese Super League.
For match-fixing and gambling, in fact, the real blow is to rely on the power of the rule of law, through the law enforcement and judicial departments to crack down according to law, is the most powerful means and way to put professional football on the right track, then the illegal match-fixing, gambling phenomenon, will be cracked down and curbed to the greatest extent.
Therefore, Chinese professional football should have a salary cut, not afraid of wolves and tigers, not because of the fear of "betting on the ball and matching", so that the Chinese Super League players still have a very high salary that is completely inconsistent with their ability and pay!
Of course, Zhu Yanshuo's last sentence: "Playing the Vietnamese team should not be a match-fixing bet, but a pure kick!" This statement is a bit like eating "shrimp and pig heart (murderous heart)" like a fish in the throat! 【Original Review: Yu said that hugh】