Xiaomi's investment has been refuted, how to play with the 150 million budget?

Finishing bottom of the group for the first time in the AFC Champions League, Three Towns' 2023 season is over. However, at the end of the season, rumors about the current situation of the Three Towns can be said to be flying.

For example, a number of players in Three Towns have already contacted other clubs in advance and are ready for both. Another example is the budget of the three towns next year of 150 million to 200 million. There are also bloggers in Wuhan on the Internet who exposed Lei Jun watching the game on the spot, and Xiaomi became one of the potential investors!

Many players in Three Towns have indeed been in contact with other clubs for a long time, and Shenhua can be said to be determined to win for Gao Zhunyi and Xie Pengfei. Chengdu, which also intends to show its strength in this transfer window, is also interested in many Three Towns players!

Three Towns has a budget of 150 million to 200 million for the new season, which is the commitment given by the club's current investors. However, Lei Jun watched the Three Towns game on the spot, and Xiaomi became a potential shareholder of Three Towns, which has been refuted by many parties and is outright fake news.

And 150 million to 200 million, often the last thing that can be cashed out is 150 million. Of course, as long as there is a budget of 150 million yuan, it at least means that Wuhan Three Towns will definitely continue to appear on the stage of the Chinese Super League in the new season.

Considering that in the 2023 season, there are still many teams in the Chinese Super League that will spend less than 150 million, in fact, as long as the 150 million can be played to the club account and operate well, the ranking of the three towns may not be worse than the 7th place in the league this season. But the 150 million budget has also been decided, and the three towns are facing a burden reduction in this winter window!

In the past two years, the three towns that have made a lot of gains in the transfer market are precisely because they have caught up with the large-scale salary arrears of the entire Chinese Football Professional League, and the environment in which outstanding players are free to fly all over the sky, and some international players who have been unbridled in previous years will have hundreds of millions of transfer fees, tens of millions of signing fees, and 15 million to 20 million annual salaries, all of which have been signed by them with 0 transfer fees, 0 signing fees, and 5 million top salaries under the existing salary cap, and they have won the 22-year Chinese Super League championship with a very cost-effective investment.

But even if the investment figures of the three towns to win the Chinese Super League championship are very cost-effective compared to those teams in the Jinyuan football period, but in the past two years of the Chinese Super League, it is also a high investment. And 150 million is not enough for the salary expenditure of the Three Towns Club this season! And in actual operation, there must be a part of the budget to be set aside for youth training expenditure, to set aside travel expenses, to set aside the part of the winning award, which means that this winter window, the three towns must reduce wage expenses on a large scale! Either the players of the three towns collectively accept the salary cut, or the three towns will inevitably face the loss of personnel, or even the departure of many main players.

Because the three towns have relied on the first-class treatment in the Super League in the past two years, they have attracted a group of mercenaries. It is clear that most mercenaries will not accept a pay cut, and will not stay with the club to live a hard life when there are better options. Therefore, this winter, the loss of the main force is inevitable for the three towns!

But from another point of view, Shangwen Group did youth training before entering the professional football circle, and Three Towns has always had a group of young players in its hands. In the past two years, as the first team of the Three Towns had to strive for good results, it was difficult for them to push their youth players to the first team, and this group of players was sent to the satellite team Hainan Star for training as a whole. The Three Towns Club and the club's investor, Mr. Liu, have been waiting for an opportunity to push the youth players to the front line! The large-scale reduction in investment scale not only means the loss of the existing main force, but also means that there will be more youth players with relatively low salaries who have the opportunity to step into the first team!

The budget of 150 million also means that the three towns will not go through the transition from heaven to hell as quickly as the Guangzhou team; they can still use up the foreign aid quota at the same time, leaving some mature combat power in the domestic players, and can also introduce some less salary, but the Chinese Super League is completely enough to form a good team.

Even with such a team, they will not enter the discussion of the Chinese Super League championship and the AFC Champions League qualification competition in the next year or two. But for a club with a potential existential crisis, it is more important than anything else to be able to survive in a healthy and stable way!