Tianjin Daily Shen Wei
On November 4, the “Request for Coordination of Unpaid Salary Issues” signed collectively by many Guizhou players came to light. These players sued the Guizhou Football Club for 14 and a half months of wage arrears, and hope that the relevant departments can coordinate and resolve them. But what makes people feel helpless is that this incident did not arouse strong public opinion. The reason is simple. The lack of salary is no longer news for Chinese football.
Due to business difficulties, the Hebei Club has suspended work and vacation from October 26. The total wages owed by the players is definitely a lot of money by today’s standards. Some media have conducted an investigation into the Super League, and it is said that half of the teams are in arrears. However, this is an optimistic estimate. A more accurate statistics is that only three or four clubs in the Super League do not have wage arrears.
Due to the poor operating conditions of the parent company, most of the Super League clubs have shown powerlessness. Some clubs that are still paying their wages are also feeling the pressure and have stopped the supplementary contracts they had signed with the players. As there is no record in the Chinese Football Association, these money players may not come back. Of course, they still have to shout for luck, because most Super League teams, arrears have become commonplace.
A large part of the problem of salary arrears in the Super League is caused by Jinyuan Football. Although the players have cut their salaries, the club is still unbearable. Of course, the most important thing is the severe decline in the operating capabilities of the parent companies of the Chinese Super League teams under the epidemic. For these companies, there is no profitable investment in football, so it makes sense to abandon it first.
For local sports authorities, they have also thought of many methods, such as the reform of mixed ownership, including the Hebei team and the Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team. From the actual effect, the mixed ownership reform has temporarily stagnated. In addition to the different situations in different regions, the Chinese Super League’s competition system means that it cannot bring advertising effects to all regions, not to mention the neutral name reform that has been criticized by the outside world.
Under the impact of the top 12 matches, the Super League’s schedule is quite special, and the brand effect has plummeted, all of which have led to almost zero revenue for each team. Teams can’t get in, and wage arrears are things that will happen sooner or later. The current situation is that the sporadic incidents of wage arrears in the past have gradually evolved into wage arrears, and Chinese football has reached the most dangerous point.
To some extent, so far the wages of Chinese players have not reached a reasonable range, and even some Chinese clubs that want to surpass, their investment is still at a very high level. For several consecutive seasons, the Chinese Football Association has issued a salary limit order, but it is extremely difficult to implement. How crazy the investment was at the beginning, and how miserable it is now.
How to solve the problem of arrears of wages, the Football Association must think about countermeasures, on the one hand, to avoid investors leaving the market in panic, on the other hand, it is necessary to set a timetable to solve the problem of arrears of wages. The very real question now is, can the Super League have 16 teams in the second stage of the game? We must know that some teams have not concentrated yet, and have even reached the brink of disintegration.
For Chinese football, the failure of the national football team to enter the World Cup is not the worst result. Once the league collapses, that will be the most scary thing.
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