With the end of the battle with Saudi Arabia, rumors abound that Chen Xuyuan privately revealed to the staff that the coaching team has hidden worries. However, the official caliber of the Football Association is to insist that Li Tie to stay, the reason is that his results compared to the same period of the previous year is more outstanding. If "better than the same period of the previous year" is indeed the basis of the Association's assessment of Li Tie, then this assessment is too hasty, and Li Tie received a generous salary is not commensurate.
There are two voices circulating about why the FA did not replace Li Tie. One point of view that no one can be replaced; the other is that the Association signed a five-year contract with Li Tie, did not set specific goals, just let him practice for the World Cup, for the next World Cup to seek a breakthrough. The first view has been criticized by the media as "lazy", while the second, although absurd, is not entirely impossible.
Chen Xuyuan once said within the FA that he would choose to resign if the national team failed to qualify for the Top 12. However, since the national soccer team has successfully advanced to the Top 12, he has never made any comments on the national team's performance issues, perhaps he has been accountable for advancing to the Top 12. Nonetheless, even if there is no performance requirement for the Top 12, is it too extravagant and grandiose of the FA for the men's soccer head coach to use the World Qualifiers to practice, and the women's soccer head coach to use the Olympics as practice?
It is worth noting that, with the men's football 12 tournament in the same period of the women's football selection was called off, the FA internal controversy on this matter, but did not take the initiative to act, and now have to re-face the subject of selection. Whether Li Tie can break the bottom line, again triggering the passive response of the FA, is not yet known.
Compared with the loss of the national soccer team, the Chinese Super League is experiencing a more severe test during the off-season. Most teams are facing the plight of salary arrears, and there are even reports of teams having to take a vacation due to broken financial chains and defaulting on utility bills and having no money for food.
The inability of clubs invested by real estate companies to support themselves in soccer due to problems with their parent companies has become one of the main reasons for the massive wage arrears in the Chinese Super League. However, the number of clubs with wage arrears and operational crises has far exceeded the number of real estate enterprise-invested clubs, which has triggered reflections on other issues.
The epidemic is undoubtedly the main reason for this, and the fact that the league has been forced to adopt a tournament system and has become fragmented as it gives way to the national soccer team has also deprived the clubs of the pleasure of playing. Even clubs such as Cangzhou Lions and Henan Songshan Longmen, despite government assistance in completing the share reform, they have not actually played a match in Cangzhou, Zhengzhou or Luoyang so far, which makes the local government and enterprises involved in the investment feel helpless; after all, they invested in soccer but could not see the results and benefits.
December in the Chinese Super League can make up 16 teams, become the recent Chinese fans and media hot topic, the league managers are also actively seeking solutions, hope that the Chinese Super League can successfully complete the game. But even if the successful completion of this year's competition, there is no guarantee that the end of the year will not appear team withdrawal and bankruptcy, after all, Guangzhou, Hebei, Chongqing two rivers Athletic Club are shown to be unable to support, and there are other potential crisis of the team, there is also the possibility of explosion.
The only way to change the status quo in the professional league is to look to government-led club shareholding reform in the short term.
However, this expected "only way of life" in the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League has repeatedly triggered a tug-of-war between clubs and local governments. In addition to Guangzhou, which has been in anonymity and has been terminating the contracts of its foreign supporters, several other clubs have suffered from deepening crises, with problems such as unpaid wages, inability to enter the tournament area, vacations without operating expenses such as water and electricity, and mass layoffs being exposed.
From the clubs' point of view, the neutral name policy allows them to put aside their last concern. If the club was still a corporate name, investors in professional clubs would not be able to force the local government to provide substantial support and guidance for share reform. But since it is already a neutral name, coupled with the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers "resurrection" at the beginning of the year, there has been a share reform pilot city out, investors can certainly look forward to share reform and state-owned enterprises to support. Then, in the parent company problems in the background, stop the investment in the club is not difficult to understand. In the Central League Football Association turned a blind eye to the prospective entry audit, the operational crisis in arrears of wages of the club wait and see is also reasonable.
But this kind of wait-and-see is not unique to the clubs, but also to governments around the world. Hebei, Chongqing and other places, the government research has been carried out, and the club has been communicated with, but there has been no substantive action, perhaps waiting for the spirit of instructions from the higher level. After all, not because the club changed to a neutral name, with regional identity, the government must provide investment, government departments around the world are also waiting for a directive or guiding opinions, before the professional soccer clubs to promote the substantive reform of the shares.
The crisis in the professional soccer league, in the clubs and government departments "look at each other" in the stalemate, and now hope that the directives, or guidance, than the collapse of a step ahead of the arrival.
