Although the Chinese Super League is in its off-season, domestic soccer is still in the news, and one of the most important things that has happened recently is undoubtedly the fact that Chen Xuyuan, the president of the Football Association, has been taken away for investigation.
Although the FA had previously issued a document denying the rumors, the fact that Chen has been taken away by the authorities for investigation is undoubtedly good news for the vast majority of Chinese fans. Over the past three years, under Chen Xuyuan's leadership, the CFA has introduced a number of policies to make our professional leagues healthier.
But the truth is that all 17 clubs, except Chen Xuyuan's old owner Shanghai Port, are suffering. Now that Chen Xuyuan has finally fallen, it creates good conditions for the future rise of the Chinese Super League.
Judging from recent developments, at least two Chinese Super League clubs will be greatly affected by the Chen Xuyuan affair. They are Wuhan Changjiang, which just announced its dissolution last month, and Shanghai Port, a wealthy club.
After last season's relegation failure, Wuhan Changjiang FC quickly announced its dissolution in January this year. Unlike several previously dissolved Chinese Super League clubs, Wuhan Changjiang did not dissolve because the club ran out of money.
Fans who regularly watch the Chinese Super League should be well aware that Wuhan's owner Yan Zhi has decided to dissolve the club because the current environment of domestic soccer is so bad. Another more important reason is that in the past two years, Wuhan has been screwed too much by Li Tie, Chen Xuyuan and the CFA.
Li Tie had become the national soccer coach, but also demanded a salary of over 10 million yuan from Wuhan, the music department did not allow the soccer association to help pay the salary, and the soccer association quickly punished Wuhan, which indirectly led to Wuhan's deduction of points and eventual relegation failure.
Yan Zhi posted a message on social media to express his displeasure and the FA will be punished. How many people can stand to wear such shoes? As a result, Yan Zhi angrily announced the dissolution of the music department.
Now, Li Tie, Chen Xuyuan and several FA executives have been put in jail, Yan's bad anger has finally been vented. Moreover, Chen Xuyuan will not be able to be the chairman of the FA in the future. I'm afraid that few people in the future FA will dare to give Wuhan team small shoes again.
In this case, Yan Zhi could really consider setting up a club again and killing his way back into the Chinese Super League once again to show the fans what Wuhan's level is in the Chinese Super League without the stumbling block of the FA.
Let's take a look at Shanghai Harbor. As we all know, since Chen Xuyuan became the chairman of the Football Association, he has been using all kinds of means to secretly protect the Harbour Club. The FA's salary limit policy cannot be enforced by Harbour; no adjustment fee is required to purchase foreign aid at high prices; Harbour Club can poach whoever they like without paying a penny of transfer fee.
However, the situation was completely different now. After Chen Xuyuan's fall, the biggest backer of the Harbor Club disappeared, and some of the Harbor Club's executives might be in trouble.
As a result of this, investment in the Harbour Club is sure to shrink dramatically over the next few years. In the past two seasons, they spent so much money without winning the championship. It will be even harder for the team to win titles in the future when they run out of money.
Of course, apart from Wuhan Changjiang and Shanghai Port, other Chinese Super League clubs will definitely be affected by the Chen Xuyuan incident. As for who will benefit from it and who will be unlucky, the fans of each club must know, right?
