As one of the few players who dare to stay in the West, Li Lei, a defender currently playing in the Swiss Super League, can be said to have carried the banner of Chinese football with Wu Lei, resolutely gave up the excellent life of "eating and drinking spicy" in domestic clubs, and went to a higher level of European Swiss league to challenge himself, which is a commendable thing in itself. When he first landed in the Swiss Super League, he received his first assist in the Europa League for the second time on the bench, but at the moment of making history like this, the Japanese media jumped out to "provoke".
According to the domestic news media "PP Sports", Li Lei left beijing Guoan Club to join the Swiss grasshoppers, and his salary was 300,000 euros a year, which was about 2.13 million yuan in China. Compared with the salary of players with tens of millions of annual salaries in China, Li Lei has indeed made great sacrifices, but the Japanese media does not think so, and the Japanese media "Football Tribe" website has made a horizontal comparison, and believes that Li Lei's performance is completely unworthy of such a salary.
In fact, the Grasshoppers, who joined Li Lei, have a very rich East Asian element, and the team has many East Asian national players in the team, including two Japanese players Jun Kawabe, SekoBumon and a South Korean player, Zheng Wanbin. Among them, Jun Kawabe is the first East Asian player to come to the team, debuted in the J League Hiroshima Sanfrecce in Japan, he is currently only 26 years old, in July 2021 he decided to come to Kusanagi to stay in the Ocean, one of the most important points is that he wants to qualify for the national team, because the Japanese national team is full of talent, he has to improve himself by leaving the lower level of the J League by staying in the Ocean, his determination is also rewarded, this season he played 22 games for the Grasshoppers to score 4 goals and 2 assists, And eventually got a contract with Wolves, who will head to the Premier League at the end of the season to further challenge his limits.
Compared with Li Lei, Jun Kawabe's on-field performance is impeccable, he is not only the main midfielder of the team and has also been unanimously recognized by the head coach and players, which may be the reason why the Japanese media "attacked", they think that Li Lei only 1 assist comparison data is also the inferior, but can get the team's top salary, all because of the Chinese boss behind the grasshopper!
It turned out that the boss of Grasshopper was Wang Jinyuan, a wealthy Chinese businessman, and perhaps she was unknown, but her husband must have heard about it, and the owner of the famous Fosun Group, Guo Guangchang. As one of the world's top 500 companies, Fosun Group's assets reached more than 100 billion yuan, and the Premier League's Wolves is his team, so Kawabe Jun joined the Wolves from grasshoppers in fact from his left pocket to the right pocket, which is very easy to understand, but even so, we still hope that Li Lei can continue to play his own strength, let these Japanese media close their mouths, and use their strength to prove that they are worthy of this salary.