Over the past few years, the popularity of Jinyuan football in domestic leagues has greatly increased the value of many local players. In the most expensive period of the Chinese Super League, the transfer value of an international player even exceeded the level of 100 million yuan, and their annual salary plus signing fee could reach tens of millions.
The development of the league is so deformed, creating many "rich" local players. However, the huge income only brought a few years of false prosperity to our league, and did not bring any substantial help to improve the level of Chinese football, but made the overall strength of the national football team worse and worse.
With the return of the national football team in the World Preliminary Tournament, Chinese football has fallen into an unprecedented trough. Affected by this, domestic leagues at all levels are now becoming more and more difficult. Nowadays, except for a few clubs with large state-owned enterprise backgrounds, most of the clubs in the domestic 3rd league have a variety of operating conditions. But there is only one reason, that is, now everyone has no money.
According to the latest news, in the case that the league season in 2022 has not yet started, 10 clubs in the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division have now withdrawn from Chinese football. Although all 18 clubs in the Chinese Super League have been eligible for league admission for the new season, who can guarantee that there will be no clubs that will continue to announce their dissolution due to a shortage of funds in the future?
In this context, the value of players in the Chinese Super League teams has also dropped sharply, and now many players are no longer pursuing high salaries, but being able to find a job and continue to continue their careers.
Therefore, many former Chinese Super League celebrities now have to reduce their self-worth and defect to the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division, which they did not look up to before, and recently there are two international players of the former Chinese Super League giants who will join the qingdao manatee team, the new army of the Chinese First Division.
As a veteran powerhouse in the A A and Chinese Super League eras, Qingdao Manatee has gone through several ups and downs. Last season, under the leadership of veteran coach Yin Tiesheng, the Manatees finally returned to the Chinese League One. The Manatees, who have returned to the Chinese First Division, now have only one goal, and that is to rush back to the Chinese Super League in 3 years.
Therefore, this season, the Manatee Club has also recruited to strengthen the team, and the two Qingdao veterans Wang Yongpo and Zheng Long will most likely join the team in the new season.
As we all know, At their peak, Wang Yongpo and Zheng Long played for Shandong Luneng and Guangzhou Evergrande respectively, both of which won the Chinese Super League championship with the team. Due to the approaching retirement age, coupled with the increasingly sluggish Chinese Super League, the two are now unable to find a place for themselves in the Chinese Super League.
Therefore, the 2 players returned to Qingdao, hoping to join their hometown team and end their careers here. The strength of Wang Yongpo and Zheng Long is beyond doubt, but how well they are maintained now needs to be proved by trial training in Qingdao.
As for whether the two can successfully join the Manatees, it is not easy to say, but I believe that it will not be long before there will be a clear result, because there are only 3 days left before the closing window of the first transfer window of the Chinese Super League.
Here, we would also like to wish Wang Yongpo and Zheng Long a smooth pass of this trial and officially join the Qingdao Manatee team. With his outstanding performance, he contributed his share to the return of his hometown team to the Chinese Super League.