Meng Xiangyu posted on social media.
The off-season CBA league suddenly made waves.
On July 24, former Tianjin player Meng Xiangyu posted a long article on social media, pointing out that tianjin Ronggang men's basketball club had unfair treatment such as non-payment of wages, not allowing himself to go to the first team, interfering with private life, and organizing transfers.
A stone stirred up thousands of waves, and Zhang Runqi, the general manager of the Tianjin team, later said in an interview that this was Meng Xiangyu's own problem, and the accusations against him were even more slanderous.
Talented teenagers on the basketball club, in the case of the truth is not clear, such a dispute is more like a "Rashomon" together. The surging news reporters will also continue to pay attention to this matter.
At the age of 18, Meng Xiangyu had grown to 218 centimeters.
Only let your own children "mess around" and don't let others fall in love freely
Born in Beijing in 1995, Meng Xiangyu has been selected for the Liaoning Youth Team and the U15 National Team.
As Zhou Qi's teammate, at the age of 18, Meng Xiangyu had grown to 218 centimeters, and then he chose to go to the United States to study and play, and played well in the National High School League, and he received an invitation from a school in the NCAA in his sophomore year of high school.
After returning to China in 2014, Meng Xiangyu chose to join the Tianjin Ronggang men's basketball team. But in the CBA, Meng Xiangyu did not meet people's expectations.
In the original social media article published on the 24th, Meng Xiangyu pointed the spearhead directly at the Tianjin men's basketball team, accusing the club of its existence of wage arrears, not letting the last team, interfering in private life, etc. The meaning of the article can be roughly summarized as the following points.
1, unpaid wages + do not let the previous team.
After passing the trial training of the Tianjin men's basketball team in 2014, the club gave Meng Xiangyu an annual salary of 500,000 yuan for 4 years. However, in fact, in Tianjin for more than three years, the club has always had unpaid wages and suspensions, and for various reasons, Meng Xiangyu has not been allowed to go to the first team.
2. Interference in private life.
The club suspended the salary on the grounds that Meng Xiangyu and the women's volleyball players were in love, and told their parents not to talk about love before they paid him and made up for the previous one;
3. Block the transfer.
After Meng Xiangyu asked for a transfer, he learned that most clubs did not want him - the reason was that Tianjin had said hello and said that he was a problem teenager; after the Shanghai team accepted him, Tianjin blocked him for not participating in the CBA draft, and finally the transfer to Shanghai failed.
Meng Xiangyu and CBA foreign aid Randolph took a group photo.
In the article, Meng Xiangyu also pointed the finger at Zhang Runqi, the general manager of Tianjin Ronggang Club, saying that the latter had asked for some of his salary to be shared in cash so that Meng Xiangyu could return to the first team.
In terms of personal life, he also used his teammate Zhang Zhihan as an example to protest to tianjin clubs.
As Zhang Runqi's son, Zhang Zhihan has been in love with a women's volleyball player since he was a child, but Meng Xiangyu said that he did not get the corresponding punishment. Meng Xiangyu also said that he had a recording as evidence, but in fact he was threatened by Zhang Runqi.
On the social software, Meng Xiangyu also attached a photo of the suspected termination of the contract. From the date shown in the contract, it can be seen that Meng Xiangyu completed the contract with the Tianjin men's basketball team on October 16, 2015, and the contract also has Meng Xiangyu's signature and handprint.
However, Meng Xiangyu mentioned a sentence in the middle of the contract: "After friendly consultation between the two sides, it was agreed to terminate the employment contract, and the registered unit has paid the athlete's salary and compensation in full." Meng Xiangyu frankly said that this sentence was added by the Ronggang Club itself, and forced himself to sign a contract that had paid his salary in full, otherwise he would not give a cancellation certificate.
Meng Xiangyu and Xiao Si took a group photo.
Tianjin General Manager: He and I don't have 1 penny of money
After Meng Xiangyu complained about the various "shady scenes" of the Tianjin men's basketball team through social media, Zhang Runqi, general manager of the Tianjin men's basketball team, also responded at the first time, and he angrily said that Meng Xiangyu's remarks had caused slander to himself.
In an interview with NetEase Sports, Zhang Runqi said that the root cause of the matter is because Meng Xiangyu is not well trained and has repeatedly persuaded him not to change when he is in love. He even gave the example of Meng Xiangyu who was persuaded to retire because he did not train well for a week.
"We talked to his parents many times about the two problems of poor training and falling in love, but there was no improvement. In desperation, he deducted his training fee. Why should we pay him for training when he doesn't train? ”
Zhang Runqi also clarified that the club did not prevent Meng Xiangyu from transferring, saying that Yao Ming had exchanged information with him about Meng Xiangyu, and his response was "you see for yourself". "I didn't say a word of bad to Yao Ming, you can ask Yao Ming for verification."
In addition, Zhang Runqi also revealed that he received a call from Meng Xiangyu on the evening of the 23rd. On the phone, the latter asked him about the training fee, and Zhang Runqi said at the time that the training fee had been settled a year ago, and there was no point in mentioning it now.
Zhang Runqi also said that the phone himself was not recorded, but whether Meng Xiangyu recorded it, he himself is not clear.
For Meng Xiangyu's description that he privately wanted to collect his salary, Zhang Runqi also said that he and Meng Xiangyu did not have 1 cent of contact, and did not accept any money from him. Zhang Runqi bluntly said that Meng Xiangyu's article was a slander of himself - "I don't know why he said this about me." ”
Xu Guijun said that Meng Xiangyu himself was not well trained.
It's a pity that the former "Yao Ming second"
After the incident was exposed, netizens had their own opinions, some people thought that the club's salary arrears were really wrong, and some people thought that Meng Xiangyu did have some bad training. For a time, this matter seemed to become a "headless case", and no one knew who was right and who was wrong.
And from the words in the circle of friends of Xu Guijun, the coach of the Tianjin youth team who once brought Meng Xiangyu, we may be able to see more things.
"I have high hopes for Meng Xiangyu's Tianjin team, but he arrived late and left early during the training period after entering the Tianjin team, his personal style was lazy and repeatedly violated the team rules, he had no organizational discipline, and lacked the basic qualities of an athlete. As the coach of his youth team, I was actually very sad, such good physical condition but not good training. ”
Indeed, Meng Xiangyu has enviable physical conditions. He chose to go abroad as early as after being selected for the U15 national team, and because of his former professional team foundation and superior height, he became the main center of the high school basketball team, and handed over 21 points, 8.4 rebounds and 5.6 assists in the first year of the National High School League.
Because of his outstanding performance, he was even regarded by the US media as "Yao Ming's second".
But in the last sentence of Meng Xiangyu's long text, we see such a sentence: "I am not playing now." ”
Admittedly, there's nothing wrong with the pursuit of salary, but when a talented basketball teenager is away from the game for non-injury reasons, you have to say that this regret seems even more heart-wrenching.
Perhaps, there is nothing more able to express such a "tragedy" than Xu Guijun's words - "even if a talented player like Kobe Bryant is still very serious and hard training, I am deeply sorry for Meng Xiangyu's career, we have worked hard but there is no effect." ”