At noon on March 12, Dalian city officials released heavy news: the Dalian Football Reform Working Group reached an agreement with Wanda Group, Party Group and Dalian People's Club to take over Dalian People's Club with the Reform Working Group as the management team. China's professional soccer since the trough, Dalian People's Club has become the first club to complete the equity reform, which not only has a demonstration significance to the plight of China's professional soccer, but also seen as a catalyst to promote the accelerated equity reform of clubs in other regions.
Wanda takes over, promises to invest for three more years
In the era of gold dollar soccer, investors of many clubs have felt the pressure, some of them, even if they have strong strength, the return on their investment in soccer is negligible, which makes them think of withdrawing. A party group invested in two and a half seasons to succeed in the Super League and then quickly withdrew its investment. Wanda Group directly operated the club for four years, during which time there were rumors of its withdrawal. on New Year's Day 2020, Wanda released a statement on its official website, saying that it was "unable to continue to support One Side Soccer Club in the current manner" due to its failure to obtain equity and the club's historical legacy of problems that had not yet been solved.
Over the years, the Dalian Ren seldom had complete and adequate winter training, and coupled with the club's mismanagement, the team was unfortunately relegated last season. Despite the general consensus that the Dalian Ren are not a bad team, rumors of Wanda's exit have never ceased.
Due to the historical debt and other issues involved, club equity reform is not an easy task, a number of Chinese Super League clubs equity reform work progress slowly, and even some stalled. Dalian People's Club's equity reform is also tortuous, but now the agreement has finally been reached. It is reported that Wanda Group will bear all the historical debts for the next 20 years and the operating expenses for the next three years, and will donate the base worth about 1.6 billion yuan to Dalian state-owned enterprise Detai Holdings for free.
This initiative involving billions of dollars is not trivial, and Wanda has demonstrated its deep affection for its home city and Dalian soccer with practical actions.
Recruitment of skipper, Xu Hong and Jia Xiujuan are in high demand
On the afternoon of the official announcement, the state-owned team has been stationed at Dalian Ren FC, and the main tasks in the near future include: forming a new club management team, selecting and hiring a head coach, and recruiting players. 12 pm, Dalian Ren FC also released a relevant announcement.
The new chairman and general manager are likely to come from state-owned enterprises, and the original club's workforce will be evaluated to decide whether to stay or go. As for the team, the requirements for selecting and hiring the head coach and recruiting first-team players have been clearly released. Among them, the head coach needs to be my nationality, the contract period until the end of the 2022 season of the Central League, such as the Super League will be automatically renewed for one year; if you can not Super League, it is not necessarily dismissed, and then will be based on the results and the effect of the youth training to negotiate separately. Under the epidemic, this year's choice of local coaches is also expected. Super active contract renewal, reasonable. As for whether to hire foreign coaches in the future, but also to see the development of the situation.
Although Dalian soccer has been in decline for many years, but Dalian after all has a deep soccer heritage, the new coach basically can only be produced in Dalian coaches. At present, in the fan base in the higher voice of the coach has two: Xu Hong and Jia Xiuquan. March 4 held a symposium on the development of soccer in Dalian, invited some of the well-known coaches and soccer experts, the two are in the list, as well as Li Yingfa, Lin Lefeng, Liu Zhonglong, Sun Xianlu and so on.
Public recruitment of first-team players has been teased by fans as having a strong state-owned enterprises style, in fact, this move not only reflects the sunshine and transparency, but also shows that the Dalian Ren team really need to supplement the strength. Some time ago, the team's future is not clear, the players have different mentality, some tend to return to the team. In addition, the original foreign aid whether to return to the team is also in doubt. Recruitment announcement in particular pointed out two points: first, focus on the investigation of the striker, back; second is oriented to the current foreign players in our country. The new season is coming, Dalian people need plug and play type foreign aid to make up for the short board of strength.
