According to Brazilian media sources, Bajia giants Santos has recently made an important decision and has terminated his contract with 22-year-old Chinese football rising star Xiao Junlong. Since joining Santos in 2019, Xiao Junlong has been pinned on high hopes, because this team has produced many top stars, and some Chinese fans even call him "Chinese Neymar". However, in the past 2 years or so, Xiao Junlong has only followed the Santos echelon to participate in training, and has not even been selected for the competition roster, and it is expected that he will be eliminated now.
It is worth mentioning that when Xiao Junlong signed Santos that year, the contract liquidated damages were as high as 700 million yuan. Considering Xiao Junlong's strength, such a amount of liquidated damages is really a bit amazing, just imagine, which foreign team will desperately retain Chinese players worth only hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan? Therefore, Santos set the terms of the contract in this way, certainly not for competitive reasons, but for other considerations. Thinking of the long-term absurd practices of Chinese football, sending Xiao Junlong out may be like many parents sending their children abroad, the purpose is to gild, and the value will rise sharply after returning home.
And this way of exporting to domestic sales is the only way out for foreign players, after all, with their personal strength, it is impossible to gain a foothold in foreign leagues, let alone a Bajia giant like Santos. Because of this, Santos is willing to take Xiao Junlong in, just to wait for the day when the Chinese team can buy him back at a high price and make a lot of money. At the same time, if Xiao Junlong is really a material that can be created, then Santos will also cultivate with all his might, no matter what the result is, they will not suffer losses.
However, Xiao Junlong's strength is not good in Santos's expectations, but the chinese football environment is getting worse and worse, which makes them unexpected. Xiao Junlong's original contract lasted until 2024, and he could not grow up, and it was difficult for the Chinese team to come up with a large amount of money to fulfill its previous commitments. Therefore, Santos is not willing to continue to waste time, sweeping Xiao Junlong out of the house in advance, on the surface, this is just his personal failure to stay in the West, in fact, it represents the current situation of Chinese football, the so-called Chinese genius rising star left the country, but it is a marginal person who is spurned by others.
After making a joke this time, it should also be able to sober up the management of many Chinese clubs, and if they really want to cultivate excellent football talents, they will send their children abroad from the beginning of their enlightenment period. Wait until the football style is basically fixed, and then expect to make a lot of money by leaving foreign gold, this idea is still to give up early, not only is it of no help to itself, but also seriously undermines the development of Chinese football's youth training. Of course, everyone understands the truth, but for a long time, no one will do it, because football is a money-burning game, especially the development of grassroots youth training, in today's Chinese football, not many people are willing to invest in it.