In the Yangzi Evening News reporter Zhang Hao's WeChat public disclosure, China's soccer industry, a little-known secret gradually unveiled - salon salary arrears has become the norm. 2021 season of the Chinese Super League, on time to pay salaries of only a handful of clubs, and even in the B level, the monthly salary of only 3,000 yuan of the players are also facing a long period of arrears of wages.
Recently, there has been a spate of news about the possibility of another pay cut in the Chinese Super League, and in previous years, the official website of the Football Association would have released a notice requesting clubs to submit a payroll confirmation form at the end of the year. However, so far this year, the official website is still no such notice, which implies that the timetable for league access is still unclear. For clubs, the key to successfully submitting access materials lies in solving the problem of salary arrears, i.e. how to communicate with players, coaches and staff to find a solution to the problem of salary arrears.
Zhang Hao pointed out that even though foreign aiders can complain to FIFA when they suffer from wage arrears, and FIFA can penalize the clubs by imposing injunctions; however, once the domestic players are owed wages, even if the Football Association makes a judgment, what will be the impact if the clubs fail to solve the problem within the stipulated time? In fact, many clubs continued to participate in the 2021 season without resolving the issue of unpaid wages for the 2020 season. The FA's approach not only undermines the seriousness of the access rules, but also contributes to a certain extent to the trend of salary arrears.
Zhang Hao further analyzed that the non-payment of wages by many clubs is actually a side effect of "golden dollar soccer". 2021 season, some players with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan in China B, and the whole team's salary is divided into three grades of 3,000, 6,000, and 9,000 teams are also facing long-term non-payment of wages; some of the teams in China B can't afford to pay for their meals in the district, and some players even need to borrow other teams' clothes to rub other teams' bowls of noodles. Players even need to borrow other team's clothes, to rub other team's bowl of noodles. These problems are not the problems of "Golden Dollar Football" per se, but the embodiment of the lack of fundamental protection of players' rights and interests.
