Chinese Super League champions Jiangsu looking for transfer, hard to find a buyer, what's the way out?

Source: Modern Express official microblog

Modern Express News 2021, the Chinese Super League team since the storm clouds, the new section of the Chinese Super League champion Jiangsu team is caught in the whirlpool. February 23, Modern Express reporter learned from sources familiar with the matter, Suning has sought to transfer the Jiangsu team, and even for the team marked the price of $ 0, but it is still difficult to find the next home. Player wages, the club's daily running costs, neutral name reform after the new enterprise can not title, have become the Jiangsu team to seek the transfer of " blocking tiger ". Not only the Jiangsu team, including the Chinese Super League's Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, the Central League's Zibo Cuju, Central B's Kunming Zhenghe Shipbuilding and many other teams, are in trouble. Winter has passed, but the spring of the domestic soccer club, is far from coming.

△Jiangsu team logo

Status quo: Jiangsu team and Jinmen Tiger unsustainable

As the new Chinese Super League champion last season, Jiangsu team, since winning the championship storm. Teixeira's contract expired to find their own way out, manager Ola Royu unilaterally announced the termination of the contract with the team, Santini and the team early termination of the contract to join the Croatian Osijek team, domestic main Ji Xiang, Zhou Yun, Gu Chao and other players contract expiration ...... A series of news continues to be exposed, each of which stimulates the hearts of Jiangsu players and Jiangsu fans.

Since the end of 2015 to take over Jiangsu soccer, Suning continued to inject more than 6 billion yuan for the team, an average of more than a billion real money each year, and ultimately in exchange for the glory of the 2020 season of the Chinese Super League Championship. But the glory of the championship did not bring too much economic benefits for Suning Group, on the contrary, Suning faced some financial difficulties, for the huge amount of soccer investment gradually have the heart.

△Jiangsu team won the 2020 Super League title, players celebrated with the cup.

Fans celebrate

In the Chinese Super League, the team that is struggling to survive is far more than just Jiangsu, Tianjin Teda has just been renamed Tianjin Jinmen Tigers and is at risk of disbanding. According to Football Daily News, Tianjin Teda executives have no intention of continuing to invest in soccer, and hope the team can be dissolved faster, saying " there is no point in dragging on like this." Zibo Cuju in Central A and Kunming Zhenghe Shipbuilding in Central B have been exposed to salary arrears unsustainable.

The way out: state-owned enterprises group intervention into the Chinese super template

When Suning took over Jiangsu soccer from Sun Tian in 2015, it was the golden period of corporate ownership of soccer, which spawned a number of luxury clubs in the country and was considered the beginning of a new round of golden dollar soccer in the Chinese Super League. At that time, Jiangsu Suning, Hebei Huaxia, Shanghai SIPG, Tianjin Quanjian and several other teams were well-funded and brought in a large number of stars. And now, with the reform of the team's neutral name, Jiangsu Suning became Jiangsu team, Guangzhou Evergrande became Guangzhou team, Henan Jianye became Henan Songshan Longmen, without the corporate naming rights and soccer dividends, the previous era of a single company investing in soccer alone, seems to have passed.

The model of state-owned enterprises group involvement in the team has become the template of the Chinese Super League. Henan Jianye, for example, Jianye Group in recent years to invest in soccer enthusiasm declined year by year, the capital injection has also reached the point of intention.February 20, Henan Jianye officially announced that the team was renamed Henan Songshan Longmen, by Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Jianye tripartite co-funding. Among them, the provincial capital of Zhengzhou accounted for 40% of the shares, Luoyang accounted for 30% of the shares, Jianye accounted for 30% of the shares, the team's daily operation by Jianye. In this way, Jianye Group has shrunk from its previous annual investment of RMB 1 billion to less than 200 million, and the pressure borne by the company has been steeply reduced.

As early as last season, Shandong Luneng transferred part of their shares to the state-owned Jinan Wentian. Currently, they have been renamed Shandong Taishan and have become the most active team in the Chinese Super League's transfer market, bringing in Sun Junhao, Leonardo, and Shi Ke, and are considered by fans to be a strong contender for the title in the new season. After Shijiazhuang Yongchang was renamed Cangzhou Lions, the city of Cangzhou and Yongchang each held a 50% stake. State-owned enterprises to intervene, and the original investors to form a " group to undertake " mode, almost become the template of the Super League team, today's Jiangsu team can undoubtedly learn from such existing successful model. As early as the end of last year, Jiangsu team and Wuxi contact, but ultimately did not reach a consensus. Recently, the team through a matchmaker with several enterprises in Nanjing contact, but so far did not find a solution.

Impact: where do teams, players, and fans go from here?

February 28, the clubs to the CFA to submit the new season access material, if the Jiangsu team is not looking for the next home, the team or will face dissolution, which is undoubtedly Jiangsu soccer and Suning are not willing to see the results. Once the team is disbanded, where do the players go, and what do the fans of Jiangsu, who have followed the team for decades, think?

February 18th was the original date for the second phase of training for the Jiangsu team after the first of the year, and due to the team's current situation, the players did not return to the training base in Xuzhuang to train. While the contract has expired Ji Xiang and Zhou Yun, but chose to be located in Jiangning's Jiangsu Provincial Football Training Base self-training, in order to maintain the state. For the team's current situation, the players generally understand that in the overall environment of the Chinese Super League team cold situation, part of the players out of the way difficult to find, naturally do not want the team disbanded.

Since the professionalization of soccer in 1994, Jiangsu has accumulated a lot of fans, and the average season attendance at the Nanjing Olympic Stadium peaked at more than 30,000 people. For Jiangsu's current situation, many fans believe that the most important thing now is to let the team live first.