Currently, most clubs in China's soccer super league (Chinese Super League) have started the equity reform journey, however, the reform pattern and progress of each club is different, and the results are also very different. Most clubs, with the exception of Shandong Taishan, have encountered numerous difficulties. In view of this, all parties present at the meeting, especially the soccer community in Chongqing, eagerly expected the State General Administration of Sports and the CFA to issue a "policy guide" to provide guidance. The Chongqing government has also expressed its support for the club's equity reform at the conference and has been actively promoting it, with the Two Rivers New District doing a lot of preparatory work over a long period of time against this background.
At the end of the meeting, the participants expressed a positive attitude, once let Chongqing two rivers soccer club saw the hope of promoting equity reform. However, to my surprise, the reform work has stalled again in the past 20 days or so. As the time for the re-launch of the Chinese Super League is getting closer and closer, the club's predicament has left the players feeling lost. Earlier, they had refused to enter the competition due to unpaid wages and lack of hope in the club's crisis management.
If the two rivers new area in just owed that a spring breeze, but now no one can say, this vital "spring breeze" actually stopped where.
In the past two months, Chongqing has held only one meeting on equity reform, but the meeting did not make substantial progress. As we all know, the equity reform program of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club adopts the "4321" equity distribution model, with four shareholders. According to the annual input budget of 300 million yuan, the distribution of the four shareholders' contributions is relatively clear. As the major shareholder, Liangjiang New District has no objection to its capital contribution, and as the minority shareholder, Jinsheng Group also agrees with the input, but the second and third shareholders have not yet made a clear statement.
As the start date of the Chinese Super League approaches, the atmosphere throughout the club is becoming more and more tense amidst the chaos of the external environment. Two Rivers Athletic took some time off for a holiday after returning to Chongqing from playing in the AFC Cup, and upon their return it was originally planned for the players to travel to Chengdu on November 5 to play in the opening match at the Phoenix Hill Stadium, a tournament associated with the Asian Cup, although the club's intention was that the tournament would be of higher significance up the ladder than the tournament itself as it is currently on hold due to the outbreak of the epidemic, but the players' desire to participate was not strong at the time.
As there was no progress in the equity reform for a long time, the Two Rivers Athletic Club also reflected the situation to the relevant leaders of the city and the Municipal Sports Bureau, and the Sports Bureau also coordinated with them, but there was no further news soon. The expectation of the whole Two Rivers Athletic Club for this shareholding reform and the resumption of normal operation of the club has been decreasing.
The reason for this is simple: long periods of unpaid wages and never-fulfilled promises have continually given the clubs hope and continually disappointed them, and mutual trust has long been lost.
In the first phase of the league for the second time into the district before the Chongqing club because of equity reform and salary arrears can not be resolved there has been a suspension of training, when the Chongqing Municipal Sports Bureau leaders and the main person in charge of the Jinsheng Group meeting at the club, in front of the players to confirm the April 30 as the time to split the line of consensus, but also reached an agreement on the financial aspects of the agreement.
Taking April 30 as the time split, the Sports Authority promised to pay salaries starting in May by the new shareholders after the team returns from the first phase of the competition. Under this premise, the Imago Group will first pay the previous two months' salary arrears and promise to deal with the remaining arrears within a year, as well as assume the prize money for the next competitions.
The Imago Group paid two months' back pay as agreed and the players managed to enter the competition and executed the winning prizes during the course of the competition. However, when the players returned from the competition in August, the previously promised payment of salaries by the new shareholders was not executed as the share reform was not completed.
Salaries after April 30 were borne by the new shareholders, which has not been realized until now, and Imago has not continuously fulfilled the payment of outstanding salaries. If this goes on, the equity transformation cannot be completed, and Two Rivers Athletic Club will eventually go bankrupt and become the second Jiangsu team. An indefinite wait has come, Two Rivers New District is waiting, the club is also waiting, but no one knows which part of the problem is now.
For this club, for the realistic expectations have been very low, as long as part of the funds can enter the club account, the players can get part of the salary, basically can ensure that the operating situation before December. But now, the club's accounts have been stretched to the limit, and the situation is almost the same as that of the Hebei team. But the fundamental difference is that Hebei has already entered the championship group, even if the financial problems lead to bad competition, losing the second phase of all the competitions, they will still be ranked in the eighth place. Chongqing's situation is obviously worse, after falling into the relegation group, if the team's condition is not guaranteed unfortunately relegated, even if the final moment to complete the share reform, then where is the meaning?
The difficulty of funding goes from the surface to the heart.
First of all is to participate in the competition of funds, before the team went to Meizhou to participate in the cost of the FA Cup, is the club senior private loan of 250,000, in the head of the head is counted and counted as much as possible to save, otherwise the team will be due to financial problems, can not participate in the FA Cup.
The situation of the first team is so, the situation of the seven teams below the club is even worse, the youth training coach has not been paid for a year, the youth training meals and the cost of playing competitions, are parents in the understanding of the club's difficult situation, their own advances. Even the recent issuance of new jerseys to the team, the need to print the number, a small amount of money, are the children's parents to help fund. The team of more than two hundred players, after training have not eaten in the club, the first team has been guaranteed food, are the club senior management to pay to keep, the whole club operation has been very difficult.
Not long ago, the Hebei team had been exposed due to arrears in base utility bills so the base was forced to shut down, and was even sealed, the staff also temporarily on vacation.
Chongqing Two Rivers Athletic Club is now in a very similar situation, firstly, the staff are almost always working on the line, and apart from legal and finance, the studio is almost invisible. Secondly, the Two Rivers Athletic Club is also now in arrears with utilities, field turf maintenance fees, and catering suppliers, totaling nearly 2 million yuan. The club's executives, who have borrowed more than half a million dollars from the club during this process, are also no longer able to sustain the club's next operations.
In addition, the club has had to pay for its faulty resolutions for the 2018 season, the
There was a ruling on youth training that was not enforced and along with three other clubs were banned from transferring by the CFA.
In view of the stagnation of equity reform, the club has no new funds into the club, to achieve the equity reform and the club's stable operation of the synchronization of the club, it is clear that it is no longer possible to do. In this way, this is not only damage to the fundamental work of Chongqing soccer, but also a damage to the club's shareholding reform of the overall situation.
Chongqing Two Rivers Athletic players, from January to now, never because of the equity reform and unpaid work automatically strike, players, coaches and staff from last year has been patient and persistent, in order to be able to help Chongqing to retain the platform of the Super League, but also to help the Chongqing soccer to leave a spark. Things are rocking, the club's financial situation is getting more and more optimistic, beyond the manipulation of all the people, Saturday clubs are not allowed to report to the first team as well as all the media, the first team once again due to the severe lack of operating funds, suspended training vacation, return date to be determined. This time, the club has reached a desperate situation, the situation of crisis level is unprecedented.
It has to be said that the situation of several foreign aiders is also not optimistic, Bolaños, despite having received permission to return to the country, but also clearly expressed the attitude of at least a part of the payroll before returning; Tursunov has been in the national team of Uzbekistan, but has not been able to come back due to the serious epidemic in the country. Captain Fernandinho had already returned to Chongqing on Nov. 9 after being quarantined in Guangzhou, and needed to be quarantined for another seven days. I don't know how he will feel when he comes out of quarantine and sees that the club's condition is even worse than when he left.
