Guangzhou team players monthly salary topic explained
Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- On the hot topic of Guangzhou team players' monthly salary, media person Pan Weili shared his insights in a long article on his blog.
Here are a few points made by Willy Poon:
1. The monthly salary of Guangzhou players has once again been hotly debated. The starters are paid 15,000 dollars a month and the substitutes are paid 8,000 dollars. In short, here are my views.
2. Most people are still surprised by a monthly salary of $15,000, since 95 per cent of our population does not earn $15,000 a month. Such a monthly salary is even a lifelong dream for many ordinary people. In their opinion, soccer players do not earn as much as they do, so most of the comments are dissatisfied.
3. I always insist on opposing extreme views. The annual salary of Chinese Super League players is too extreme and inappropriate; the monthly salary of a few thousand dollars is also too extreme and even more undesirable. I think the average Chinese Super League player in a first-tier city should not earn less than 50,000 dollars a month, and the average Chinese Super League player in a first-tier city should not earn less than 20,000 dollars a month. As for the national team level players, their annual salary should be at least 1 million dollars.
4. The cost and elimination rate of training professional players is much higher than that of training ordinary university students. Ten years in the making, millions of dollars invested, but only a few thousand dollars a month? What ingrate would want such a return on investment? If you think this is justified, then you, your family and friends should be eager to follow suit. If you're just a bystander, expecting others to do so, then you're actually thinking it's unreasonable.
5. Certain points need to be countered - Many people say that if you want to make money, go to the top five leagues and go abroad! This sounds full of positive energy, but actually completely ignores reality. In China's current soccer environment, the probability of becoming a Big 5 player is slim to none; it's like telling a child from an ordinary family that you should study hard and go to Harvard and Silicon Valley to make money in the future. It is not those few high-paying opportunities in Silicon Valley that have supported China's booming Internet industry, but the hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs offered by top domestic companies such as Ali, Tencent and ByteDance, which have attracted millions of young people. Similarly, it is not the opportunities in Europe's top five leagues that support the development of Chinese soccer, but the many jobs and opportunities offered by the Chinese Super League. If Ali's wages were only a few thousand dollars, China's Internet would collapse tomorrow. Similarly, if the wages in the Chinese Super League are only a few thousand dollars, Chinese soccer will also face collapse.
