In recent years, it has become a habit for Jiangsu fans to cheer for former Jiangsu players scattered across the teams.
Gathered is a fire, scattered is a sky full of stars.
After the dissolution of Suning, former Jiangsu player Xie Pengfei came to Wuhan Sanzhen. After the breakthrough, he reproduced the profound celebration of "looking at the outside world with one eye". Xie wanted to see himself clearly, but who can see Chinese soccer clearly?
"So many delinquent clubs got in that you regretted pulling out?
"We don't owe that much, we must regret it!"
Before the start of the 2022 season, the CFA made huge concessions to the massive wage arrears in the Chinese professional soccer league and introduced a "three-step repayment" plan; regardless of how long clubs owed money, and whether or not they had reached an agreement with the players, all clubs that wanted to continue playing last year would enter first, and the debts would be repaid slowly. .
Not being in arrears is no longer a requirement for entry.
Last April, I asked a former Suning club manager who had returned to work for the group about this. "Do you regret quitting so many clubs that owe wages?"
The reply was, "We don't owe that much, we must regret it!"
It's not common to disband after winning a championship. This management even went so far as to use the question "Would the consequences have been different if the (media/self-media) had paid more attention at the time?"
At the end of the day, he just said over and over again, "We don't owe much, selling some players will plug the hole..." and "How did we know the guys behind us owed that much..."
It is clear that the former Suning administrator feels helpless, regretful and deeply resentful of Jiangsu's exit.
For the past two years, former Jiangsu players and staff have found time to get together in Nanjing every year after the season. Everyone's feelings are still strong, but life has gone its separate ways.
"Give me a (main) striker and you can kill Luneng"!
Prior to the implementation of the league policy for the 2020 season, R&F were the first to propose the abolition of promotion and relegation; a policy that was supported not only by some of the relegated teams, but also by one of the strongest teams in the league, which was Suning!
Prior to entering the division that year, the team was already operating in a less than ideal situation, and many on the team, were already mentally prepared for a relegation fight.
More than halfway through the first phase, news of the team's salary arrears and training strikes came to light. At the time, many insiders got the signal that Suning did not want to continue to invest in soccer, but the whole team still held the belief that "excellent performance will make investors change their mind".
Driven by the belief in twisting the rope, some players who originally had a hostile relationship with each other, such as the two main players in the backcourt, put aside their personal grudges. They began to encourage each other on the court and hugged each other in celebration after winning.
Before 2020 Shanghai Hong Kong played Suning in the second round, Suning's chef secretly took a picture of a training session in Hong Kong in order to mess with the other team's mentality, which was caught by Arnautovic. The two sides used "fists and feet" to have a "friendly" exchange.
This approach is certainly not something to be advocated, but against a difficult backdrop, we can see that everyone at the club is doing their best to help the team.
After winning the championship, there were no bonuses or celebratory feasts. Olaroyo, a coach who didn't want the whole team to feel left out, comforted many of the title-winning heroes by buying a dozen Apple phones out of his own pocket before leaving.
He won the Premier League title and finished runner-up in the FA Cup with a disabled squad after an underwhelming campaign. It's safe to say that Suning had a perfect 2020 season, which quickly dissolved when more people began to expect the team to perform in the 2021 season!
Many were confused about the quick dissolution of Suning after winning the title, but it was sort of a sign of things to come!
Before the Spring Festival of 2021, the breakup began to spread as many of the major contracts expired and no one was even talking to them about renewing them.After the Spring Festival of 2021, Suning's investor, Mr. Zhang Dongbei, openly stated that "it's time to cut", and it was known that Suning had given up on Jiangsu soccer altogether.The breakup of Suning was a major event, but it was not the first time that Suning had been able to get the ball rolling in Jiangsu!
Regarding the reasons for Suning's withdrawal of capital, Ma Dexing, a famous media person of Sports Weekly, once wrote: "Facing the current situation of Jiangsu soccer, the first thing capitalists think of is to escape. What the club and the parent company are doing now speaks for itself. Because of their "timid" nature, coupled with their "speculative" drive, it is obviously naive to expect other owners to come forward to save professional clubs in the current turmoil of Chinese soccer."
In fact, Ma Dexing's words sum up Suning's motivation for investing in soccer very well - speculation!
At that time, Sun Tian did not make up its mind to let go of the club. Suning took the initiative to seek out the relevant departments to put pressure, and finally took over the club at what seemed like a relatively small cost at the time (Shuntian also left it to Suning because Sun Ke's 66 million transfer fee transfer formalities had not been handled).
After taking over the club, Suning had painted a grand blueprint for future development. But in fact, Suning has its own little plan to invest in soccer.
Because Suning's e-commerce efforts came much later than JD.COM and Taobao's, and their marketing tactics were far inferior to each other's; while they saw JD.COM signing exclusive sponsorship contracts with the Chinese Super League and CBA, Alibaba joined Evergrande in sponsoring the Club World Cup, and both companies reaped a lot of traffic through professional sports.
These moves also inspired Suning; they sponsored Barcelona, accepted Sun Tian, accepted Inter Milan, and invested heavily in copyrights and e-sports. They also hope to broaden Suning's industrial chain by channeling the traffic brought by sports to their e-commerce platform.
Investing in soccer does bring Suning a good diversion. However, Suning has been drying e-commerce with offline thinking for a long time, and their business philosophy and promotional model have not fully conquered consumers, resulting in Suning holding traffic, but unable to realize the cash. Moreover, a few years ago, Suning kept spending money almost every time it broadened a new area. They may have made plans to abandon Jiangsu soccer before investors thundered in.
Of course, if you do not get the league title, Suning is afraid that they will not offer such a high transfer price; if you do not get the league title, perhaps their exit will not cause so much concern. However, the championship raised the expectations of all parties on Jiangsu, and also raised Suning's appetite. After Jiangsu's dissolution, Ma Dexing revealed a detail: "In 2020, before Suning won the league title, the company contacted companies in Wuxi and Suzhou. At that time there were many options, such as the club relocation, Suzhou Dongwu, Kunshan merger and so on. Wuxi Sports Bureau also wanted to take over, but Suning offered a price that sent Wuxi home for 10 billion yuan a year.
Shanghai, which entered the Chinese soccer world at the same time as Suning, spent 12 billion yuan to get a championship, spent billions to more than 10 billion yuan, and has not yet won the league title of Huaxia, Quanjian, Shenhua in the Greenland period; in contrast, Suning won the 6.3 billion yuan of the league title in five years, and was quite successful based on the results alone.
But even so, Suning has invested in Jiangsu soccer for five years and still left an amateurish impression on all sides.
In terms of signings, Brazilian foreigner Adriano had already flown to Nanjing; at that time, after getting a "positive" reply from the club, Suning coach Petrescu had already called Hotspur to talk to him about technical tactics. As a result, these two foreigners did not join Suning in the end.
As far as preparation is concerned, the first game of the Suning period, the AFC Champions League away flight to Vietnam, the team only got on the plane, did not bring the training ball this matter was stabbed by the players to the media.
In the first league game under Olaroyo, the debut was slated for No. 28 Yang Xiaotian, but Yang Jiawei was written as No. 27 on the list submitted by Li Jinyu, who at the time didn't even go to Nanjing Olympic Stadium with the brigade.
When Olaroyo renewed his contract with Suning, he added a clause that allowed for bonuses for finishing in the top four. At the time, Suning's dealmaker W. defaulted to tying fourth place in the league to qualification for the AFC Champions League.In '19, Olaroyo led his team to a fourth-place finish, but didn't qualify for the AFC Champions League. When Olaroyo asked the club for money, Suning's trader said, "Fourth place won't get you into the AFC Champions League."
Before Suning 2020 entered the division, W did two things:One, to save money, he fired the team's laundryman and asked the team's staff to launder practice and game gear for each player and coaching staff.
Secondly, with the club in such financial difficulty, W still gave an 8 million contract extension to a player who didn't even make the division for medical reasons.
Previously, Suning ate buffet after training in Xuzhuang base, but at the beginning of the 21st, under the leadership of assistant coach Cao Rui, the team resumed training only issued boxed lunches, which need to be collected with a ticket; at the direction of W, did not renew the contract of auspicious, Zhou Yun, Gu Chao, not only endured a long period of arrears of wages, the club also did not prepare a boxed lunch for them.
