In the past decade, our Chinese Super League teams have achieved very good results in the AFC Champions League, which is one of the few things that can make our Chinese fans proud. Because in the AFC Champions League, we can still feel that our team can compete with Japanese and Korean teams. But at the national team level, our gap is too big to fight. This also creates a strong contrast, sometimes making our fans very stunned and confused.
In fact, if we compare it, we will know why. The japanese league teams have done well in the AFC Champions League because they have a good overall strength, and their teams can win the opponent through overall coordination. The korean league teams have a good result in the AFC Champions League, and the reason is simple, they can run and rush, and they can crush you with strong impact. And what is the good result of the Chinese Super League? But obviously, rely on foreign aid. The backline is an extraterrestrial defensive core, taking on most of the defensive tasks with his personal ability, and the midfield core is also a foreign aid, using his personal ability to push the attack forward. And the front line is to have one or two big-name foreign aides to sit, even if the offensive opportunities are not good, these big-name foreign aides can create opportunities through personal ability.
So our results are actually piled up with money and foreign aid, without foreign aid, maybe our team is nothing, not even a good central axis. So our AFC Champions League results are actually like castles in the air, the results are really bright, but it has less and less to do with our football level. And this achievement also requires a lot of money to be invested every year to maintain. The investors who make the club are also miserable.
Therefore, everyone often says that the Chinese Super League has spent so much money in ten years, how Chinese football has not improved at all, but has declined. In fact, this is why the money is not spent in the right place, our league has not cultivated talents for Chinese football, but has become a stage for the individual performance of big-name foreign aid. In fact, to put it bluntly, we spent money to build a big stage for others, and when we had money, the drama was still quite lively, and the result was that there was no money, people left, and we had nothing.
Of course, we can't say that we don't need foreign aid, but our reinforcement ideas are to be changed, and our foreign aid should be better activated by our own players and help improve our own players. But it is not easy for this concept to take root in various clubs, because clubs have the pressure of performance, and many investors also want to see results in a short period of time, while developing players takes time, and even needs to sacrifice certain results in a short period of time.
However, with the end of the Golden Yuan era, the Chinese Super League has actually ushered in a good opportunity for change. Everyone has little money now, and the pressure to survive is greater than the pressure of achievement, so the level of foreign aid introduced will decline, and local players will definitely get more opportunities. As long as there are more opportunities, more young players will play out. This is a good start, but our club can not go to extremes, do not use foreign aid at all, or only use foreign aid as a quota to consume, the players invited are too poor, which is actually equivalent to a waste of resources.
For example, recently there was a reinforcement that surprised many fans, and this reinforcement came from Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, a veteran of the Chinese Super League. Just recently, De Zhuan updated a Transfer News of the Chinese Super League, and Radonic, a foreign aid who had previously played for Qingdao, officially joined Tianjin Jinmen Tigers. The 31-year-old Croatian centre-forward joined Qingdao in September 2020 and played 23 Chinese Super League games for Qingdao in one and a half seasons, scoring just one goal. You know, this foreign player is a 190cm high school striker, who has only scored 1 goal in 2 seasons, which is not as good as many of our local centers. It can be said that in the past, such foreign aid will definitely not find a job in the Chinese Super League, and even if it goes to the Chinese First Division, it is difficult for a team to accept. But today's Chinese Super League has quickly found a job, is it really the Fallen Super League?
In fact, the reason is also very simple, although Radonic, the foreign aid, although he is older and the level is not particularly high, but his advantages are also very obvious, the first is that he has no transfer fee, other teams do not need to spend more money to introduce him, and because of the data, his annual salary will not be too high, so the cost of introducing such a foreign aid is absolutely low. The second is that Radonic's height advantage is obvious, the height of 190 is absolutely dominant, if the team wants to play cost-effective high-school forward tactics, it needs such a tall and physical player. Third, Radonic has played in the Chinese Super League, is familiar with the environment of the Chinese Super League, and will not be too uncomfortable because of our strict epidemic prevention. Fourth, and most critically, there is no better and more suitable local high school striker in the transfer market at present, and this type of player is actually out of the box.
So Radonic is very cost-effective for the current Chinese Super League, but at the same time let us know that the training of high school forwards should be strengthened, and now the demand is greater than the supply, and the local high school forwards have the opportunity. Do you know those young homegrown high school strikers now? Who are you bullish on? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!