Shenzhen team, as the club with the most serious problem of salary arrears in the Chinese Super League, is still involved in salary arrears disputes with more than ten people, including foreign aiders and foreign coaches. In order to solve the problem, they need to pay a huge amount of money, which is almost an impossible task for the Shenzhen team in deep crisis. Because of this, Shenzhen has become the team with the least optimistic situation of access to the Chinese Super League today. If they are kicked out of the Chinese Super League this season, it will never be an unexpected thing.
Nowadays, the huge financial crisis of the Shenzhen team has a huge relationship with one person, and that is Ding Yong, the general manager of the Shenzhen team. Ding Yong is a strange man in soccer. This "strange" is because he himself hurt two Chinese Super League clubs and lost hundreds of millions of dollars in assets to the owners. Even in the Chinese soccer world, it is really amazing that Ding Yong can achieve such an "accomplishment".
During Ding Yong's first transfer period as Shenzhen's general manager, he shocked the entire Chinese Super League by bringing in 19 players in one go. However, all the players Ding Yong brought in, such as Swiss international Dzemaili, were embarrassed when they were released from their contracts without being enrolled, citing poor health. This signing and release cost Shenzhen tens of millions of dollars.
However, after that, Ding Yong still hadn't collected signings, so Caldecott, Vaccaro, Quintero and others followed. Some foreigners were suddenly replaced by newcomers before Shenzhen got hot. So far, no one has been able to explain why Ding Yong is so keen on signings, especially bringing in foreigners. Even to make room for the newly signed foreigners, Shenzhen rented to Hebei, where Cernus did not perform badly and the conditions were almost "free". Now Shenzhen only has to pay 11 million euros in liquidated damages on Cernus, which makes people laugh.
In fact, Ding Yong's ability to be a "loser" was evident as early as when he was the vice president of Tianjin Tianhai FC. In early 2018, Ding Yong signed seven internal reinforcements for Tianhai, but only Wu Wei was barely serviceable; and his head coach Paulo Sousa signed a replacement for Cannavaro, which not only led to his early dismissal, but also caused Tianhai to pay a huge liquidated damages of 9 million euros. paid a huge 9 million euros in liquidated damages.
Of course, it was French foreigner Modeste who really hit Tianhai hard. During negotiations with the player, Ding Yong, eager to invite the boss, gave Modeste an impossibly generous offer. After the player joined, he changed his mind and backtracked. In the end, Modeste sued Tianhai to FIFA, which not only made Tianhai bear a huge debt for breach of contract, but also lost as much as 38 million euros in transfer fees for nothing.
Roughly speaking, the amount of money Ding Yong has lost over the years must be at least 500 million, including Shenzhen's payment of foreign aid, foreign coach salary arrears, Paulo Sousa's, Modeste's, and Tianhai's default payments, and so on. , not even including the high signing fees these players and foreign coaches get when they sign contracts and the transfer fees needed to bring them in.
Indeed, Ding Yong has been well known in soccer since leaving Tianhai in 2019, but why did Shenzhen hire him as general manager? Here's a little story. Ding Yong, an agent, had a good relationship with a famous female agent in the circle. So through this woman's introduction, coupled with the fact that Shenzhen was in desperate need of a manager with "connections", Ding Yong immediately agreed to become Shenzhen's general manager.
Now, Ding Yong has been taken away for investigation because he is involved in the "Li Tie case". I'm sure the secrets behind these amazing transfer signings will surface one day. However, in the climate of Chinese soccer, managers like Ding Yong will appear sooner or later.
