A week has passed since the time point of submitting the access materials, and it is initially understood that each team has submitted relevant materials, but some of the materials are unqualified and need to be resubmitted, and it is expected that the access results will be available within a week at the earliest. After the admission results are announced, the transfer window will soon be opened, and the winter window is the transfer window of the Chinese Super League season, whether it is domestic or foreign aid, it will usher in a relatively large change. However, the financial situation of the teams has not improved much this year, and it is even deteriorating, so there is no need to expect too much from the transfer.
Predictably, the transfer strategy of the teams is still dominated by non-signings and loans, with visa-free transfers accounting for the majority of transfer cases. The premise of the visa exemption is that the player's contract with the original club expires and is a free agent, so how many players will have their contracts expire at the end of 2023? According to media statistics, this number has reached a staggering 200, and this is only 16 clubs in the Chinese Super League, with an average of more than 10 players whose contracts have expired in each club. Of course, this figure is not much different from previous years, after all, many of the more than 30 people in the first team have contracts signed in the same year, and it is normal for them to expire in the same year.
However, this year, compared with previous years, the abnormal thing is that the number of renewed players is much less, and the team may still be inspecting and is not in a hurry to renew the contract, but in general, there will be a large number of players who are "unemployed" and become free agents to enter the transfer market, and the "unemployment tide" of the Chinese Super League is coming again. At the same time, the current situation of the club's survival is difficult, the league environment has not improved, the investment has been greatly reduced, and the players are followed by salary cuts and job losses. These 200 players whose contracts expire account for 40% of the number of first-team registrations in the Chinese Super League, which is a very large number.
Among the 200 players whose contracts expire, many of them are well-known foreign aides or internationals, including Fellaini, Moises, Zhang Yuning, Xie Pengfei, etc., and the expiring foreign aides will basically leave the Chinese Super League, and the expired internationals will not worry about their families. But those ordinary players will either accept a pay cut to play in the lower leagues, or retire early. Salary cuts to low-level leagues will cause new problems, and the players in the Super League will squeeze the players in the original low-level leagues, squeezing layer by layer, resulting in slightly weaker and slightly higher salaries of these players will be eliminated.
According to media statistics, the monthly salary of most of the main players in the Chinese League is only more than 10,000, which is about the same as the ordinary wage earners in first-tier cities. It is unlikely that all of these 200 players will find the jobs they want, and many will leave the Super League stage, either retiring early or playing in the lower leagues, which are all existing problems in domestic football, which are not easy to solve, and may continue for a long time.