There are only 6 days left before the beginning of spring, but Chinese football is still in the harsh winter. According to the requirements of the Football Association, the Chinese third-level league teams need to submit to the club including staff and players before 17:00 on January 29 The salary and bonus confirmation form signed by all personnel within, otherwise the new season will not be registered. But up to now, half of the Super League clubs have not moved. The reason is simple. They really have no money.
Jinyuan Football brought countless big-name foreign aid and foreign teachers, so that the Chinese Super League once had the reputation of "the sixth largest league in the world", but the investment of the club has also risen, reaching a jaw-dropping level. According to incomplete statistics, the average annual investment of the Chinese Super League championship teams is as high as 2 billion yuan. Take Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Club as an example. Their public financial report shows that in the past four and a half years, the total investment of the Evergrande team was 9.35 billion yuan. Including the unannounced financial report for the second half of 2020, the total investment of Evergrande in 5 years There is no suspense in breaking tens of billions. In the 2018 season, Shanghai SIPG, which won the Chinese Super League championship and broke the monopoly of Evergrande, also invested heavily. The public financial reports in the past four years showed that their total investment was 8 billion yuan, and the unannounced 2020 financial report is also included. Investment will easily break 10 billion.
As another favorite team, Beijing Zhonghe Guoan spent about 9 billion yuan in the four years after Zhonghe took over. Of course, Guoan has an advantage that other clubs envy, that is, having two shareholders, who inject capital into the club proportionally. When the major shareholder Zhonghe Group entered Guoan in the form of capital increase and share expansion, it brought 3.5 billion yuan to the club. After the expenses were spent, according to the proportion of the two shareholders, Zhonghe injected another 3.5 billion yuan into Guoan. , And the second shareholder CITIC Group, which holds 36% of the shares, injects approximately 2 billion yuan in proportion. However, as the shareholding changes caused by the change of Guoan’s name, CITIC will lay down its burdens, and the huge annual investment will need to rely on the independent support of Zhonghe Group in the future. In order to ensure the competitiveness of Guoan, Zhonghe Group has a long way to go.
The championship requires a large investment, and relegation is also not easy. Player wages and transfer fees are getting bigger and bigger, making these mid-lower teams seem to retreat if they don’t advance. In order to stay in the Super League,They also had to increase investment. Take Henan Jianye, who has been relegated all the year round, as an example. In the 2019 season, Jianye Group invested about 950 million yuan in the club. That year, Jianye finally ranked 8th in the Chinese Super League. In the 2018 season with little difference in investment, Jianye finally succeeded in relegation with the 12th place in the Super League, only 2 points ahead of the penultimate Changchun Yatai.
In fact, although the Chinese professional football league has gone through 27 years, it is still misnamed professionally. The club's hematopoietic function is almost zero, and there is no way to talk about commercial development and brand building. Without blood transfusions from investors, the team simply cannot survive. Today, years of burning money have caused the Chinese Super League clubs to collectively fall into a financial crisis. Not only is the financially limited relegation ball unable to support, even the rich Chinese Super League clubs are facing the embarrassment of running out of ammunition and food.
Chongqing Dangdai won the third place in the Suzhou Division last season and entered the championship group, but they immediately loaned the team's core Adrian to Guangzhou R&F, with the simple purpose of reducing some salary expenses. In fact, this southwestern province The only Chinese Super League team has not paid wages for half a year, and even the staff have to tighten their belts. Tianjin Teda, the old churros of the Chinese Super League, is also in a financial crisis. Not only is foreign aid preparing to appeal for salary, but also winter training has been delayed.
In addition, the new Chinese Super League champion Jiangsu Suning has also been involved in a salary arrears. Their winning bonus 1 cent has not been paid, and they owe coaches and players several months of salary, which also led to their salary bonuses. The confirmation form could never be submitted. Although the eighth champion of the Chinese Super League Guangzhou Evergrande is operating normally, Boss Xu has also made a four-character policy of "only going out, not going in", and it has become a fact that money will be tightened in the new season. In this case, the main goalkeeper Liu Dianzuo and international midfielder Xu Xin have become free agents. Recently, Evergrande was exposed to the introduction of Luneng goalkeeper Wang Dalei, and the introduction method is said to be a player exchange.
In this wave of financial crisis, Beijing Zhonghe Guoan's business situation is pretty good, but they have heavy signings every winter window, but they seem to be calm and quiet, and they seem to save money internally. the meaning of.
2019 season,Nine professional football clubs at all levels withdrew. Before the start of the 2020 season, 17 clubs disappeared in Chinese football. In fact, they included the traditional strong Liao football team and the 2018 AFC Champions League quarter-final team Tianjin Tianhai. To this end, the Chinese Football Association has introduced a new package including the most stringent salary limit in history and investment caps. The purpose is to reduce the burden on clubs and ensure that the Chinese professional football league will not collapse. It now appears that this policy is not too early, but a bit too late. After all, 600 million yuan is not a small number.
In addition, the Chinese Football Association also stipulates that the investment in youth training is not included in the club’s 600 million yuan limit. On the one hand, this loosens the tie for players such as Evergrande, Luneng, Greentown and Guoan who attach importance to youth training. On the one hand, these teams spend a lot more than other teams. This kind of expensive expenditure will also become a heavy pressure for these clubs.
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