In recent seasons, although the Chinese Super League teams no longer follow the golden yuan model, the investment of each team is still not too small, otherwise it will not be able to produce results. During the winter window, the two teams of Shanghai Shenhua and Chengdu Rongcheng invested a lot, especially the introduction of popular international players such as Xie Pengfei and Wei Shihao; After the start of this season's Chinese Super League, their results are also very remarkable. Because of this, the well-known commentator Yuan Jia specially calculated the account and talked about the relationship between the ranking and investment of the Chinese Super League.
On May 16, 2024, the famous commentator Yuan Jia talked about the topic of investment in the Chinese Super League team. Yuan Jia analyzed that if the Chinese Super League team wants to hit the top 5 first group, it must invest at least 300 million; If you want to hit the championship, then you need to invest more, at least 500 million is enough; If it is only mixed in the middle of the level, that is, the 6th to 10th, this also needs to invest 200 million; If you are relegated, the team will have to invest 100 million to have hope. Judging from his analysis, even if the Chinese Super League is not a golden yuan model now, the team's investment cannot be too small.
While his analysis looks very layered, there are actually some exceptions. For example, the investment of the former Chinese Super League champion Wuhan Three Towns is not as Yuan Jia said. Since the middle and late stages of last season, the investors of Wuhan Three Towns have withdrawn their funds, and later the team's foreign players Stanqiu, Davidson, Aziz, and Malcom have left the team, and the team's staffing is far less than before. In this season, Three Towns also let go of Xie Pengfei, Wei Shihao, Gao Zhunyi, and other international-level domestic aids, and the team only introduced low-cost foreign players such as Romario, Enrique, and Dalan.
Despite the team's struggles and the staffing is nowhere near its peak, the team is not in a bad position and is now in 9th place for the time being. According to Yuan Jia's analysis, the 9th place in the Chinese Super League needs to invest at least 100 million to have hope. However, at present, the investment in the three towns of Wuhan is obviously less than 100 million, and it is probably only tens of millions. After the previous investors withdrew, Wuhan Three Towns has been looking for new partners, and is also promoting share reform, but it has not gone well, and later only received support from relevant departments.
Although the team had set a budget of 150 million yuan before, the actual implementation of the funds was far less than this figure. During the winter window, the three towns sold Wei Shihao, Xie Pengfei, and Yan Dinghao only received more than 10 million transfer fees, and later this money was also used to introduce new foreign aid such as Enrique and Dalan. Even if you count the 5 million sponsorship fees won this season and the support of relevant departments, the actual real investment of the team is tens of millions. But in this case, the team can play to the 9th place is considered to be a super level of performance! Hopefully the team can maintain that resilience.