Chinese soccer has now entered a very difficult stage. On the pitch, the poor strength of the players has led to the lack of competitiveness of the national team, and on the pitch, many teams are currently operating in a very unsatisfactory situation due to financial problems, as evidenced by the frequent default of wages or even outright dissolution of some clubs in recent seasons. In order to solve these problems, the Football Association is now actively making some changes and attempts, but the effect must still be given time.
First of all, it is about the music finance, according to the latest news, the soccer association will further limit the salary policy of the players, the maximum salary of the local players is limited to 5 million RMB before tax, and the maximum salary of the foreign players is limited to 3 million euros before tax, and in terms of the average salary, the average annual salary of the local players shall not exceed 3 million RMB before tax, and the number of the foreign players is 1.5 million euros.
It may be hard to say whether the salary limit will work, but it will be a good thing for the clubs. In the past, the Football Association has made many attempts and changes in this matter. One of them was the adoption of the latest salary limit policy in 2020, which was officially implemented in the 2021 season. The last policy limited the total wage bill of local players to no more than 75 million dollars and foreign players to no more than 10 million euros. In this era of Chinese soccer, where investment enthusiasm is almost nil, such a policy may be a good benefit for some investors, but the effects will have to be given time.
The second problem was the candidate for the national team coach. In the beginning, the idea of the football association was to find an experienced foreign coach who knows Asian soccer very well, but it was very difficult to realize. Mainly, there are not many such coaches per se, and secondly, Asian powerhouses like South Korea and Iran are also looking at such coaches, and it is difficult for the soccer association to offer attractive salaries to foreign coaches without the help of some corporations, and the strength base of the Chinese team is so poor that these foreign coaches are not very enthusiastic about Chinese coaches. Therefore, this matter was postponed and there was no way to implement it.
Nowadays, the idea of choosing a foreign coach is mostly a complete abortion. Madsen pointed out that the Football Association has realized that the likelihood of hiring a foreign coach is very low, so the criteria for the next coach selection will focus on so-called local principles. The soccer association itself can't wait - after all, there are some tournament commitments coming up, and it's really an unaffordable thing who the foreign coach chooses and all the details involved.
So for now, it's very likely that Li will continue to lead the team. Having Li Xiaopeng as the leader of the Chinese coaching staff before the soccer association looks to hire a foreign coach, I don't know why the soccer association keeps trying to add a so-called Chinese coaching staff, even though the setup seems pointless. Li can't be said to have led the team poorly, after all, the team was poor too, but the problem is that he led the team to a loss to Vietnam last Spring, which subjected him to unprecedented public pressure, and under the current circumstances, no one may really see him as leading the team to anything, but it seems that the soccer association has no other suitable candidates.
