Straight to the April 7 news, the former rumors resurfaced.In the hot summer of 2018, Evergrande FC paid about 400 million yuan for Paulinho and Talisca, the two foreign players, as a reinforcement adjustment fee.
Recently, in the 2020 financial statements released by the Shanghai Port Group, the reinforcement adjustment fee for foreign player Arnautovic of the Shanghai Port team was as high as 150 million yuan, which was categorized as "important other payables with an age of more than one year", which made the issue of "reinforcement adjustment fee", which had long been forgotten by Chinese fans and media, once again aroused concern. This has long been forgotten by Chinese fans and the media "attraction adjustment fee" issue once again triggered concern. The announcement of the Football Association in the previous conference showed that Evergrande, Luneng and Dalian party had paid the reinforcement adjustment fee. According to the exclusive news of NetEase Sports, in the summer transfer period of 2018, Evergrande paid an adjustment fee of about 400 million yuan for Paulinho and Talisca.
Neither the FA nor Shanghai Harbour Club has responded to the incident of the RMB150 million outstanding reinforcement adjustment fee mentioned in the 2020 financial statement released by the Shanghai Harbour Group. The legality of Shanghai Harbor's use of Arnautovic in Chinese Super League matches has been questioned as the FA had previously made it clear that players who had not paid the adjustment fee could not be registered.
The reinforcement adjustment fee of the National Football League is a policy promulgated by the Football Association in June 2017, which aims to guide the rational investment of the Chinese Super League clubs. As of March 2019, the FA announced on its official website that Guoan for Bakambu and Bieira, Luneng for Fellaini, Evergrande for Paulinho and Talisca, Dalian for Hamsik, Gaetan and Carrasco, and Quanjian for Modeste, with a total of five clubs paying the adjustment fee in full for nine foreign aiders.
Evergrande paid more than 400 million yuan for Paulinho and Talisca, and the money has been paid in full. In addition, Li Ming, general manager of Guoan, also said in public that the club has paid the full amount of attraction adjustment fee. The FA has also made it clear in a number of announcements that clubs such as Luneng, Evergrande and Guoan have already paid the fee, so it is unlikely that the FA has not provided clubs with accounts to pay the adjustment fee, according to media sources.
So why has Arnautovic, who joined Hong Kong in July 2019, been owed a conditioning fee to this day?
Some media reports claimed that this was because the Football Association was unable to issue an invoice for the reinforcement adjustment fee, and therefore Shanghai Hong Kong, as a state-owned enterprise, was unable to make the payment. The possibility of this claim is high. It is understood that although Evergrande has paid more than RMB 400 million in adjustment fees, it has not yet received the corresponding invoices.
However, the fact that Luneng, also a state-owned unit, has been able to pay the adjustment fee for Hollaini seems to indicate that it is difficult to substantiate the claim that SIPG has so far defaulted on the payment of the adjustment fee.
Hong Kong obviously does not intend to default on this fee, it is more likely that there are many procedural problems in the process of collecting the "attraction adjustment fee" of the Football Association.
Previously, there are also reports that the National Football Association in the General Administration of decoupling, the Football Association released, the implementation of the reinforcement adjustment fee, should be based on the provisions of the Regulations on the Registration of Social Organizations for approval. But the National Football Association released the collection of reinforcement adjustment fee did not go through all the procedures for approval, they had the idea of transferring this income to the National Football Development Foundation. But according to the relevant provisions of the management of associations and foundations, this adjustment fee charges can not be counted as a unit of the donation fee, now still by the Chinese super company on behalf of the collection, which has touched the management of associations and charges for a number of management regulations, some financial rules and guidelines and even difficult to overcome, resulting in the attraction of the adjustment fee has now become a "hot potato".
Therefore, perhaps the main reason why Shanghai Hong Kong failed to pay the adjustment fee for Arnautovic in time was the FA. However, the FA has not yet provided any explanation for Shanghai's failure to pay the fee, nor has it provided any explanation for why Arnautovic was allowed to register without paying the fee.
Putting aside the fact that Arnautovic was able to successfully register for the Chinese Super League, up to now Shanghai Hong Kong has still been unable to pay the fee, which is fair to the clubs that have already paid the adjustment fee, and should the FA return the fee to the clubs?
Due to the epidemic and the various investment restrictions in the Chinese Super League, the hundreds of millions of adjustment fees previously paid by the clubs, once they can be returned, this fee will be enough to offset the entire club's annual operating costs, for the club's investors will also be a great relief.
