<b>Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Ji Yu </b>
Last week, the Hebei team caused a lot of fluctuations. The team was first rumored to be in business difficulties, suspended work and vacation from October 26, and then announced that it could not afford the base's electricity bill, giving four low-age echelons a holiday. In fact, many teams in the Chinese Super League are facing different dilemmas. Will the seemingly calm Chinese Super League be collectively "detonated" with the "self-declaration" of the Hebei team?
<b>Multiple clubs</b>
<b>Encountered operational difficulties</b>
"I saw him rise up a tall building, I saw him entertain guests, and I saw him collapse." When the Guangzhou team was rumored to be facing serious difficulties, many fans used this line in "Peach Blossom Fan" to express their infinite sighs in their hearts.
Ten years and eight championships, the "dynasty" shaped by the Guangzhou team in the Chinese Super League is temporarily unsatisfactory. The "Golden Dollar Era" it brings has made many big stars gather in the domestic arena, so that the excitement and attention of the league have been qualitatively improved. With the outbreak of a series of crises in the parent company, guangzhou has also fallen into a lot of difficulties: coach Cannavaro has left the team, and the players have not yet received a fake concentration.
In fact, the Guangzhou team is only the highest and most conspicuous one, and many Chinese Super League clubs are facing different degrees of operational difficulties.
On October 28, the Hebei team officially announced that due to well-known difficulties, the club training base has recently been unable to pay the electricity bill on time, and in order to save operating expenses, it is planned to decide to take a holiday for the 4 echelons of the 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009 age groups. Earlier, the Hebei team issued a notice of suspension leave, and the club suspended work leave from the 26th.
Although it has long been rumored on the Internet that the Hebei team can't even pay the electricity bill, when a Chinese Super League team really writes it into the official announcement, it is still a bit "absurd", and even more like the club's "black humor".
In addition to the Guangzhou team and the Hebei team, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, Cangzhou Lions, Qingdao team, Henan Songshan Longmen and other teams are also facing different degrees of operational difficulties. Among them, there are many people who have tried everything to survive at the beginning of the season. Where they will go in the future is unknown.
<b>Neutralization reform</b>
<b>Cut back on investment incentives</b>
The team is facing difficulties or even disbandment, which is not unusual in the Chinese Super League. Whether it is Tianjin Tianhai, which once spent thousands of dollars, or Liaoning Hongyun, which has a deep heritage of the team, it has all gone into decline. However, this is probably the first time that the crisis has radiated most of the Chinese Super League like this year.
Combing through the timeline, everything seems to point to a point in time, that is, at the end of last year, the implementation of new policies such as salary restrictions and neutralization reform of team names. When the bubble of false prosperity is ruthlessly punctured, all that is left for the Chinese Super League is a place of chicken feathers. At the beginning of this year, the dissolution of the New Branch champion Jiangsu team was like opening a "Pandora's box", and the problem of "financial lack" of various clubs was gradually revealed.
Of course, the problems faced by the club are not necessarily directly caused by the New Deal. For example, the Jiangsu team was dissolved, in large part because the parent company adjusted its strategy and focused on the "main road". The difficulties faced by the Guangzhou team are not unrelated to the difficulties faced by the parent company.
However, "name neutralization" has a good chance of being the last straw that crushes the camel. After the outbreak of the epidemic, the shareholders of various clubs have suffered a big or small impact. After the neutralization of the club's name, the investment in football, which did not make money or even lose money, is now deprived of even the remaining publicity role. Throwing money in but not hearing the echo, many shareholders have plans to quit as early as the end of last season.
It is true that the salary restriction order and the neutralization reform of the team name can indeed promote the club to get rid of the "blood transfusion" of the parent company and develop a new industrial income method, which is an important driving force for the professionalization of the Chinese Super League. However, in the past two years, the investment enthusiasm of various enterprises has been sharply reduced with the plight of the league and the enterprises themselves, and the hasty reform at this time has made the development of the Chinese Super League more difficult.
<b>Hebei team or triggered</b>
<b>The "domino" effect</b>
In the era of Golden Yuan football, the Chinese Super League can be described as unique. The representative team of Guangzhou in the Jin Yuan era has won the AFC Champions League and has also played against bayern, Barcelona and other world giants in the Club World Cup. Suddenly, the title of "the world's sixth largest league" was so installed in the Chinese Super League, half of which was a joke and half of which was expectation.
This season, big-name foreign aides have fled, and the competitive level of the Chinese Super League has finally been "beaten back to its original form". With the frequent occurrence of league problems, the recognition of the Chinese Super League in international football is also declining.
As teams collectively abandon the AFC Champions League, the points in the Chinese Super League have dropped to the freezing point, and the number of places in the Chinese Super League in 2023 will change from "3+1" to "2+2". Affected by foreign aid quotas and other factors, the gap between Chinese Super League teams and Teams such as Japan, South Korea and West Asia has been further widened, and the status of the Chinese Super League in the AFC Champions League may continue to decline.
The Hebei team's disclosure of its own operational difficulties is likely to further bring a blow to the Chinese Super League. Clubs in deep crisis are currently in a wait-and-see state, and it is difficult to guarantee that no club will follow suit. Although the difficulties of the clubs are already paper wrapped up in the fire, but one by one "detonation" is always more room to deal with than the collective "thunderstorm". Once the clubs collectively "detonate", it will affect the next Chinese Super League schedule, and even the expansion of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division next year.
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