According to the notice issued by the Chinese Football Association, the first transfer window for players of the Chinese Super League and Chinese League One clubs in the 2022 season has opened on March 15 and will close on April 15. And as of April 8, a week before the window closes, the transfer market has remained generally quiet. Affected by factors such as the epidemic and the financial constraints of most clubs, there has been no transaction involving top international foreign aid during this transfer window.
Among the new aids who have completed the transfer, the Romanian attacking midfielder Stanciu, who was introduced by the newly promoted Chinese Super League Wuhan Sanzhen Team, temporarily ranks first in the domestic club transfer list this winter with 4 million euros, and he is likely to become the new season. The leader of the domestic transfer “winter window”. In addition, most transfers involving local players are completed at a “zero price”, and a similar situation is likely to be extended to the moment of “closing the window”.
According to the initial vision of the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football Federation preparatory group, the new season of the Chinese Super League will start in late April at the earliest. To this end, the Chinese Football Association confirmed last month that the first transfer window for players of the Chinese Super League and Chinese League One clubs in the 2022 season will open on March 15 and close on April 15. Although some clubs have already started in advance to implement new aid selection and transfer communication matters, judging from the actual situation after the “window opening”, the transactions in the transfer market are generally flat. Under the influence of the epidemic and financial crisis, most clubs in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League have tightened their money. They either downgraded the introduction of foreign aid, or played the “young card”.
Among the clubs participating in the 2021 Chinese Super League, the champion club Shandong Taishan and the runner-up Shanghai Haigang (the two clubs are also the FA Cup champion and runner-up in the current season) are the few clubs in the league that do not owe wages. New season signings are also more cautious. For example, Taishan introduced Brazilian center Cressan from Portugal’s Santa Clara, and Haigang introduced Senegalese center Ndiaye from Turkey’s Goztabbi Club. From the perspective of the team’s personnel composition, supplementing foreign aid centers is just in need. But compared with the extravagant signings in previous seasons, the two Chinese Super League giants only spent 2 to 3 million euros to introduce the two. His personal worth may be less than a fraction of the price of super foreign aid such as Oscar.
Except for a few top foreign players such as Oscar and Fellaini, the Chinese Super League will hardly see more international first-class players in the new season. This is not difficult to judge from the specific circumstances of the season’s “winter window” transaction. During the opening of the transfer window, the most recent signings were the newly-promoted Chinese Super League club Wuhan Three Towns. In mid-February of this year, one month before the transfer window opened, the club publicly announced the signing of three new foreign players in one go. In terms of fame, the names of Stancho, Wallace, and Davidson are not very popular. Among them, the transfer value of Romanian midfielder Stanciu is relatively the highest, at 4 million euros. Davidson and Wallace are worth 2 million euros and 250,000 euros respectively. That is to say, the cumulative transfer fee for the three is more than 6 million euros, but Sanzhen may already be the club that invested the most in signings during this transfer window. Judging from all kinds of information, Stanqiu is likely to become the king of the new season of “transfer winter window” in domestic professional football. And the worth of 4 million is also significantly different from the worth of Shenzhen Football’s foreign aid Quintero last season and the 2020 seaport foreign aid Lopez’s worth of nearly 6 million euros.
The sharp decline in the purchasing power of the Chinese Super League is not only reflected in the introduction of foreign services. Although the Chinese Football Association is to further revitalize the domestic professional football transfer market, it will cooperate with more local players to find employment opportunities. However, as far as practical conditions are concerned, local players who were once affected by the “golden dollar football” with a serious premium are now unable to sell for a good price.When salary arrears have become the norm, many players can no longer expect high salaries, and more hope to sign a stable contract. It can be said that this year’s domestic football transfer market is a veritable “buyer’s market”.
“Find your own team” is the club’s helpless voice to the players when they are in deep business dilemma. Therefore, in the past few months, the clubs of the Chinese Super League, especially the club teams with stable operations, have been training players one after another at the preparation site. For example, the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, which turned a corner last season, is the target of a considerable number of local players. In the warm-up match between the U21 National Youth Team and the Jinmen Tigers not long ago, a whole group of trial players appeared on the starting lineup on behalf of the Tianjin Tigers.
Among the transfer transactions of local players that have been completed during this transfer window, there are not many transactions involving millions of yuan in transfer fees, such as Zheng Xuejian’s transfer to the newly promoted Zhejiang Club of the Chinese Super League. The transfers of new and old internationals such as Liao Lisheng, Button, Zhang Chengdong and Ren Hang were all completed at “zero price”, that is to say, these players completed the transfer with “free agency”. From this, it is not difficult to see that the original clubs of the players have been unable to retain these players with high salaries. They are naturally unwilling to sell these players for free, but it can save salary expenses and help stop losses. This is actually the reason why a considerable number of Chinese Super League and Chinese League One clubs will use a large number of young players in the new season.
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