In recent years, the Chinese Football Association has been actively operating players to play overseas, not only limited to the European league, but also to send potential players to the Brazilian league for training. Last year, 20-year-old Chinese teenager Xiao Junlong officially joined the Bajia giants Santos, the contract signed until 2024, the liquidated damages of up to 100 million euros, converted into nearly 700 million yuan, according to the previous report, this is the Chinese Football Association and the Brazilian Santos club to stay in the foreign cooperation project.
At that time, many fans were full of expectations for the 20-year-old youngster, after all, Santos, a Big Club, had cultivated top football stars such as Neymar and Pele.
However, there are also fans who have doubts about joining Liuyang, after all, the 20-year-old Xiao Junlong did not play in the Chinese Super League before, nor is he familiar with the fans, Liuyang joined the Bajia giants Santos, and also signed a contract with a penalty of 100 million euros, which had to make people suspect that they wanted to "export to domestic sales".
Sure enough, the contract for the 100 million euros of liquidated damages became a "dead letter". According to brazilian media outlet "TNT", Santos will terminate his contract with Chinese teenager Xiao Junlong on Thursday, April 14. He had only trained with the team in the Santos U20, U23 and other echelons, and did not get the opportunity to play in the first team of Santos, and did not even enter the first team roster.
It has to be said that the project of staying abroad operated by the Chinese Football Association has ended in failure. Although Santos signed a contract with a penalty of 100 million euros, he can only give up the Chinese teenager now, after all, he is 22 years old. It is not difficult to see that Santos gave up Xiao Junlong for a simple reason, that is, the strength can not meet the requirements of the team's head coach, rather than letting him stay until the end of June 2023, the contract expires, it is better to let him leave the team in advance.
Of course, a bolder guess can also be made, and Santos's signing of a contract with Xiao Junlong for 100 million euros in liquidated damages does not value his potential. Instead, it values the vast Chinese market behind Xiao Junlong, and even hopes that a giant team in the Chinese Super League will pay a high penalty to buy Xiao Junlong back to the Chinese Super League. However, due to the decline of the Chinese Super League, Santos can no longer see the hope of buying back Xiao Junlong from the Chinese Super League team, so he made an appointment with him at this time.
In fact, the Football Association is also on the side of failure in this project. As a cooperation project between Santos and the Chinese Football Association, the result is that the contract has not expired, and the Santos Club has asked for early termination, which has thoroughly slapped the face of the Chinese Football Association and made Chen Shuyuan's face nowhere to go. Of course, what is more embarrassing is that Xiao Junlong himself, a player of about 22 years old, ended his stay in the Ocean and returned to the Chinese Super League, I am afraid that no team is willing to want him.