With the collapse of the Chinese men's football team in the World Preliminary Tournament, Chinese football represented by the Chinese Super League has also fallen into an unprecedented trough.
In this context, the enterprises that invest in football have also lost their enthusiasm in the past, and many clubs at all levels of professional leagues in The country have various problems in the operation. Among these clubs, the most eye-catching is undoubtedly the former Chinese Super League 8 champion Guangzhou Evergrande (now renamed Guangzhou Team).
Due to the serious financial situation of the club's parent company, the share reform work has also been very uneven. The management of guangzhou finally decided not to run the club jointly with other companies, and next season they will continue to bear all the operating costs of the teams at all levels alone.
The guangzhou team's annual operating expenses are only 15 million, which is equivalent to the annual salary of one or two local big-name teams in the team last season.
Because the club's operating funds are very effective, Guangzhou team has also introduced the latest salary limit regulations, next season the team will only have 3 places for top salary players, and even the maximum salary is only a mere 600,000 yuan.
For Guangzhou players who have been accustomed to millions of high salaries in the past, this "insulting" annual salary level is obviously unacceptable. As a result, many of the main players of the first team have chosen to leave Guangzhou in different ways.
Players who are not very old or have good physical condition basically begin to find a new home for themselves. Some players over the age of 30 directly chose to retire, and the 41-year-old Zheng Zhi left Guangzhou to join Li Xiaopeng's coaching staff in the national team. The 34-year-old Huang Bowen also followed in the footsteps of Big Brother and decided to retire and become a team assistant coach.
The most regrettable thing is that Mei Fang, born in November 1989, is now only 32 years old, which is still in the final stage of the golden period of his career for a central defender.
However, due to injuries and the current bad environment in the Chinese Super League, even if Mei Fang can find a new home to continue to play in the professional league, he will not be able to earn the ideal salary. Therefore, in the end, he also chose to hang up his boots and retire.
The retirement of the above 3 veterans is very regrettable, but in fact, the domestic players who want to retire at present are not only these veterans over 30 years old. According to a well-known football reporter in the domestic sports media "Sports Weekly", in the case of the extreme downturn in the domestic league, many players in their 20s who are less than 30 years old have also been ready to retire.
As we all know, in the case of the latest salary restriction policy issued by the Football Association, the current Chinese Super League, in addition to a few big-name foreign aides, domestic players can get salaries on time is already good, and they simply cannot earn the same high salary as in previous seasons.
Club salary arrears and players' salary bargaining have become the hottest topics in the Chinese Super League recently, for many domestic players, instead of continuing to wait hopelessly at the club, it is better to retire as soon as possible to make another way for themselves. After all, if they can't find a stable job after the age of 30, then their future livelihood will be very problematic.
Even if some young players can stay at the club and play football, I am afraid that they will not take every game as seriously as before, because these players feel that the money they can earn now is not worth their efforts.
It can be said that such a big decline in the domestic league today has a lot to do with the salary limit, club investment restriction and neutral name policy introduced by the Football Association in the past 2 years. Although the intention of the Fa association to introduce these policies is good, it is still a bit hasty. Although the good medicine is good, but the dose is too large and the effect is too strong, not only can not cure the disease but it is easier to cure people to death, right?