When it comes to the most time-consuming issue in Chinese soccer this season, there is no doubt that it is the unpaid salary dispute between Dai Weijun, who is currently playing for the national team and has been hailed as a talented rising star, and the Shenzhen team. According to Zhang Bing, the lawyer representing Dai Weijun, the arbitration request filed by Dai Weijun has been supported by the Shenzhen Arbitration Department, and the Shenzhen team is required to pay the outstanding salary within 10 days. At the same time to win the victory, Dai Weijun also means that the CFA, which has been "making peace with the mud" before, has once again been hit in the face.
According to the news revealed by Shenzhen soccer reporter Cheng Wenli, the arrears of wages arbitration that Dai Weijun won actually started last year for the 2020 Shenzhen team. , 2021 season salary arrears complaints. It is worth noting that last year, Dai Weijun actually filed an arbitration application to the CFA, which is also due to the Shenzhen team's long-term wage arrears. At the time, Dai Weijun's demands were either to pay the back wages or cancel his contract and leave freely. However, in the end, the CFA did not support Dai Weijun's request for wages, so he worked for the Shenzhen team for a year last year, which led to this year's dispute between the two sides.
In other words, the Shenzhen arbitration unit clearly found this time that it is an ironclad fact that Shenzhen team owes Dai Weijun wages for the 2020 and 2021 seasons; as other arbitration authorities can find out that Shenzhen team owes wages, the CFA, as the head of Chinese soccer, which holds all the signings of professional players, will not be able to find out? This makes the outcome of the arbitration between Dai Weijun and Shenzhen last year rather strange.
If the CFA had been able to work impartially and find out about Shenzhen's wage arrears, then according to the relevant regulations, Dai Weijun would have become a free agent long ago, and there would be no need to delay for such a long time. Of course, this is not the first time that the CFA has favored clubs, suppressed players, and even helped clubs with long-term wage arrears to "help others". In the case of this season's Chinese Super League entry, for example, almost the whole world knows that Shenzhen has serious wage arrears and financial problems, but it's surprising that the CFA can determine that the team "doesn't have wage arrears" and grant it entry.
With the official department's determination that the fact that Shenzhen owes Dai Weijun wages has been established, the CFA is still dealing with the arbitration lawsuit between Shenzhen and Dai Weijun. It is not yet clear what the final decision will be. The current situation is that if the CFA continues to favor the club and does not recognize Dai Weijun's free-agency status, it is obviously not a wise choice for them. Hopefully, this time, the FA will not "help" the club to do so.
