May 17, as the new season of the Chinese Super League is approaching the prologue, Chongqing team but once again suffered a strike storm, the prospect of the new season has cast a shadow.
It is reported that since the 16th, Chongqing players collectively refused to go to the training ground, and some players expressed their demands to the head coach Zhang Wailong, asking to solve the problem of salary arrears before re-training, and had no choice but to report this problem to the management.
The Chongqing team has always been the focus of attention of the industry and fans. Since last year, the club has been constantly rumored about the failure of the share reform and the news of withdrawal, but the team worked together and eventually succeeded in relegation. However, this year, the share reform is still advancing, but so far no substantial progress, coupled with players and staff salary arrears have never been resolved, and ultimately detonated the conflict.
Club staff, the longest is owed wages have not received pay for a year, the shortest is also half a year, the players, the longest is owed wages even reached 16 months. Some of them have been in a state of "inactivity" - on the 16th, the players stopped training, the rhythm of the first team's preparations on the eve of the opening match was broken.
Previously, the Chongqing team has repeatedly appeared in the players strike, players and staff in the long-term arrears of wages under the weight of life pressure; at the same time, in the process of equity reform, the players before some of the promises failed to fulfill, and therefore the prospects for equity reform and the outcome of the expectations have fallen dramatically; and the club's financial situation, with the passage of time more and more tense, the lack of long-term capital injection, the first team's operating funds have been in a state of emergency! .
Chongqing's operations and first-team running will face a huge shock if it cannot ensure that salary arrears are resolved before the start of the season. Last Thursday, the club learned that its accounts had been frozen because players who had left the club had filed a lawsuit in court. Under such circumstances, even if the club subsequently has funds coming in, it will not be able to prioritize payments to the first team players and club staff. What is even more disappointing is that Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club has not received any new money so far, and no one knows whether there will be any money coming in in the future. Players have experienced long unpaid wages over the past two years, heard countless promises, and signed unpaid notes over and over again, but to this day, the promises remain unfulfilled.
