Among the people who have already had accidents in this wave of anti-corruption and gambling in Chinese football, Li Yuyi's appearance surprised all parties the most.
Compared with most of the "criminals" who fell from the horse to follow, even earlier can already be called "bad deeds", by many insiders characterized as "sooner or later there is a problem", Li Yuyi, whether in Shanghai or during his tenure in the Chinese Football Association, his business level, his treatment of people have left a very good impression on all parties, and he has indeed done a lot of positive things for Chinese football during his tenure; Therefore, at the first time of his accident, many insiders said bluntly - unexpected!
Why did Li Yuyi, who has a good reputation, have an accident?
In recent months, Liu Kai, who has always aimed his guns at the Chinese Rugby Association and former women's football team manager Chen Yingbiao, revealed that "Li Yuyi has retired + immigrated, because he recently returned to China to do business was covered at the airport"!
There is no news about Li Yuyi's retirement. As early as 2019, when he left the Football Association, Li Yuyi had already de facto retired; As for his immigration, it is not a secret in a small area, and he has long begun to deal with some assets in the country. And this time, Li Yuyi's so-called return to China to do errands is likely to dispose of his remaining property in China; If he is not arrested in this wave, he will transfer all his assets out, and the difficulty of recovering them in the future can be imagined.
So what problems did the arrested Li Yuyi involve? It is widely believed that he has not had much problems in Shanghai during his years, and the main problem is when he was the vice president of the Football Association and the chairman of the Chinese Super League. Especially considering that Yu Hongchen, Ma Chengquan, and Li Yuyi have served as the chairman of the Chinese Super League for three consecutive years, as well as Chen Yongliang and Dong Zheng, who have successively served as the general managers of the Chinese Super League, have all had accidents, it can be said that the Chinese Super League company (the other is Ford Bao), which has always served as one of the two large and small treasuries of the Football Association, is indeed a place that is easy to breed corruption! During Li Yuyi's tenure, the projects he led were tricky, including the shirt packaging contract between the Chinese Super League and a sports brand.
The first cycle of the Chinese Super League's shirt packaging contract is from 09 to 18 years; The reason why the Football Association headed by Nan Yong at that time wanted to sign a shirt packaging contract was directly related to the general environment of Chinese football at that time. Even if the shirt packaging contract has damaged the interests of Beijing Guoan, Dalian Shide and Shanghai Shenhua and other giant clubs; However, considering that the public opinion environment of Chinese football at that time fell to the lowest point, when some small clubs in the Super League could not find a shirt sponsor at that time and had to buy a bare cricket shirt, the shirt packaging contract signed by the Nanyong Football Association was equivalent to letting several large clubs such as Guoan and Shenhua sacrifice 2 to 3 million yuan each, providing protection for the rights and interests of small and medium-sized clubs
However, after the last wave of anti-gambling and anti-black sweeps, Evergrande came in to open the gold yuan mode, and the investment and attention of the Chinese Super League gradually increased; Especially after 16 years, as more clubs join the arms race, the commercial value of the Chinese Super League has reached its highest point, and many clubs have long been very unhappy with the shirt packaging clause signed by the Football Association, which only has 1.5 million cash + 5 million equipment to the club every year. In order to consolidate several large clubs, the shirt sponsor brand has long adopted a differentiated treatment. Several big clubs, including Guoan, Shenhua, and Evergrande, have received more equipment support than other clubs! However, the extra equipment did not calm the dissatisfaction of the club, but instead bred some corruption problems.
Of course, when there is a contract, each club can complain at most; When the shirt packaging contract was about to expire, some clubs began to "get real". At that time, Guoan contacted some sports brands, including Shenhua, Evergrande and other clubs, and some brands took the initiative to ask for prices! At that time, Guoan, Shenhua, and Evergrande had a jersey sponsorship contract of 50 million yuan per year. And clubs such as Suning, SIPG, Taishan and so on, at that time, conservatively estimated that each family received 2 or 30 million shirt sponsorship contracts can be described as easy, even some small clubs receive 10 million jersey sponsorship contracts every year is also easy... In 2018, the newspaper estimated that the market sponsorship value of the top 16 equipment in the Chinese Super League was at least 360 million yuan per year, and clearly mentioned that the vast majority of the 360 million were cash support.
However, in 2018, the Chinese Super League reached a 10-year (5+5) shirt packaging contract with a total price of 3 billion. Of this amount, 2.2 billion is equipment and 800 million is cash sponsorship. In short, the Chinese Super League signed a shirt packaging contract that was far below the market conditions of the Chinese Super League.
When the details of the contract were finalized, not only Guoan raised objections, but also small clubs such as R&F also clearly expressed their opposition when voting within the Chinese Super League! So why did the contract finally pass? First of all, the headline resolution within the Chinese Super League company, a total of 25 votes; Each of the 16 clubs has one vote, while the Chinese Football Association, which owns 36% of the shares, has nine votes. In short, as long as the Chinese Football Association can pull in 4 clubs to vote with itself, those in favor will account for the majority! Of course, the Football Association obviously will not only attract 4 companies to stand on the team at the time of the vote, and many clubs have been greeted at the time of the vote. In particular, the equipment sponsorship that a brand actually sends to the club, but is not reflected in the contract, is very convenient for some club staff to secretly sell in a certain treasure and a certain idle. Although this hurts the interests of the club, why not have your own pockets bulge?
And in the process of this wave of anti-corruption and gambling in football, many "broken things" in previous years have been slowly dug up! And this shirt packaging contract, which was once criticized as a "poison contract" by the "Football" newspaper, was made by Li Yuyi, then chairman of the Chinese Super League! And with Li Yuyi having fallen from the horse, this discerning person can see that there is a tricky contract, and it is time to check it well!