Traced back to December 14, 2011, Wuhan Yangtze River Football Club's predecessor, Wuhan Zhuoer Professional Football Club, in Wuhan, Hubei professional soccer sector is like a "sapling" in Hubei, Hubei Zhongbo Football Club due to operational difficulties and often looking for buyers when the time came to take over the "Han Army" burden. The burden of the "Han Army". Since then, Zhuoer Group has invested nearly 3 billion RMB over a 12-year period. Since joining the professional league in the 2012 season, the team has undergone a name change to Wuhan Changjiang, and the team has realized "transformation" twice in 2012 and 2018.
As Yan Zhi, an investor in the team, said, even though the team is now in the doldrums and only needs 20 million dollars a year to maintain its operation, he is not interested in the soccer industry, calling it full of bitterness. During his 11-year journey in the league, Yan Zhi has accumulated a wealth of experience and lessons about Chinese professional soccer and team operations, and has repeatedly spoken out publicly to criticize the soccer association, but has failed to bring about substantive change and has even been fined as a result. Yan Zhi's comments reveal a vacuum in the protection of investors' rights and interests. Are they only qualified to participate in the game, but have no right to monitor and speak out?
Has the ecosystem of Chinese professional soccer become so hostile that decades of business waves have been unable to shake it? Entrepreneurs who are worth tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars seem to be unable to do anything about it, which is extremely rare in reality. Zall Group as one of China's top 500 companies, such entrepreneurs can not understand an industry in 12 years? In fact, the problem is that they simply can not follow the business logic to operate the soccer industry. In the end, they can only fall into the "prey"!
Therefore, China's professional soccer league is in dire need of a deep rethink. The lack of a healthy environment for competition and return on investment will not nurture true professional soccer. This is an international consensus. How to build effective league management and follow the development law of professional soccer has become the top priority for the future development of the Chinese Super League and even Chinese soccer.
