I believe that many fans have recently been reflecting on why Chinese football has lagged so far behind. In fact, the backwardness of Chinese football is definitely not sudden, in fact, it has already been reflected in our league. Before the Chinese Super League entered the Golden Yuan era, our AFC Champions League results had already turned straight down, when our Chinese Super League team was completely destroyed in the group stage of 4 teams, facing the K League for eight consecutive losses. At that time, our Chinese Super League team was already behind the Japanese and Korean league teams in terms of game rhythm, overall coordination and technical tactics.
In fact, the reason for the backwardness of Chinese football is obvious, when the Chinese Super League team just had some money, our club began to go to the extreme. They abandoned the relatively healthy development path of the A and A era, originally foreign aid was to help us improve, and now they have begun to invite south American and African foreign aid forwards with strong individual ability. So the team's attack began to become simple, and the players began to get used to attacking is to pass the ball to foreign aid, let the foreign aid to solve. As a result, the techniques and tactics of our Chinese Super League clubs began to stagnate. It is very easy to use in the Chinese Super League, and when the AFC Champions League schedule pays attention to the overall technical and tactical play, our foreign aid can easily overwhelm the opponent's overall defense. There is no way to attack, the defensive pressure is greater, and eventually lose.
Only then our golden age began, the level of foreign aid was upgraded, and the midfield had a foreign midfield master to organize the attack, and the back line also had a foreign defense to increase the hardness of defense, so our Chinese Super League results in the AFC Champions League were good. But this achievement is also based on the level of foreign aid, except for the level of our Chinese Super League and the level of local players, which have not improved, and even regressed. And this regression is also reflected in the achievements of our national brand.
However, with the end of the Golden Yuan era, many clubs were able to fall into difficulties on their own, so the big names of foreign aid left, and even some teams could not afford new foreign aid. So we saw a lot of local players start to get back on the central axis, and last season there were many local players who broke out, such as Zhang Yuning and Guo Tianyu on the front line, Xu Xin, Liao Lisheng, Duan Liuyu, Yan Dinghao in the midfield, Zhu Chenjie and Jiang Shenglong on the defensive line, etc. on the defensive line. Let everyone see hope. And I am also looking forward to the new season, more local players to break out.
However, some fans have raised their own concerns, because at present, local players have obtained opportunities because of the bad economic conditions of the club, not because of the upgrading of our club's development concept, so can the situation of local players getting opportunities continue? Will the club's financial conditions be better and change back to the previous era, or will it be mainly foreign aid, rather than foreign aid as a supplement? After all, the club's performance pressure will make them pay more attention to the results in front of them, and long-term plans often do not work.
In fact, there are such signs at present, for example, recently with the transfer window deadline approaching, some clubs that are not bad money have begun to officially announce their foreign aid. For example, the Chinese Super League giants Beijing Guoan, who have missed the opportunity to win the championship in recent seasons, have signed 3 foreign assistants at once, the most notable of which is the Golden Boot of the Swiss Super League, the Nigerian striker Ade benro who plays for Norrköping. He played 30 games in The Regency last season, including 17 goals and 2 assists in 25 of those starts, which is quite eye-catching.
The Beijing Guoan team spent a full 3 million euros in order to win this foreign aid, which is currently the largest transfer fee of the Chinese Super League. In addition to the Swiss Super Golden Boot, Beijing Guoan also spent 1 million euros to sign the third foreign striker Dabro in the Croatian First Division top scorer list, and introduced The South Korean national team player Kang Xiangyou in the center back position. That is to say, in addition to the midfield, basically Beijing Guoan will still focus on foreign aid.
Of course, the club needs to operate and achieve results, which is no problem, but we still feel a bit of a pity, the business ideas of the Chinese Super League clubs have not been upgraded, and the business philosophy has not fundamentally changed. That is to say, the current aggrieved players are only limited to the financial situation, and there are some regrets. Of course, we can't be harsh on the Chinese Super League team to change overnight, so our local players have to work hard, especially Zhang Yuning, who has already won the opportunity, to be mentally prepared, because in the future you may have to compete with millions of Euros level foreign aid. Although the competitive pressure is less than that of the era of big-name foreign aid, it is not optimistic.
Therefore, the road to the take-off of Chinese football is still very long, but there are changes and expectations. How many years do you think it will take for our league to rise to a high level and complete the promotion of our business philosophy? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!