July 10, Qingdao football world storm clouds, the official announcement: the player Ba Li for repeated violations of team rules and regulations, but also beat the team masseuse; in the warm-up game attitude loose, was replaced off the field, and the deputy leader and coaching staff insults, and even with the body of the assistant coach, bad behavior, the impact of the very bad, so the implementation of the three suspension of its punishment.
Although Qingdao's training in Dalian seems to be quiet, the team's internal affairs are already in a precarious state. With five consecutive months of unpaid wages, it can be said that the "Bali incident" is just the tip of the iceberg of the team's internal problems, and all the conflicts have reached a critical point with the unpaid wages.
Dilemma - Teams face suspension, participation in Guangdong in doubt
In the face of this scene, a club leader who supervised the game at the scene had mixed feelings in his heart. He anxiously ran down to the stands, first to deal with the conflict triggered by Ba Li, and then to deal with the problems between the two players. But he knew in his heart that only one promise could solve all the conflicts that had erupted or might erupt - the promise about when to make up the salary.
Qingdao's only paychecks to arrive this year were one month's salary and the win bonus for the first game against Cangzhou Lions. Earlier in response to the strike, the club's senior management had promised to pay the salary within a month, but the time point has been delayed again and again, and finally in the fourth commitment to set the date on July 13th. Sources close to the matter have revealed that Qingdao city authorities have allocated more than 30 million yuan to the team to ease the urgent need. But this fund is used for player salary, salary one-time pay how much and other doubtful issues are not known for the time being. Can be basically certain that, once the club again issued a small part of the salary, several self-return to the team's foreign aid is likely to reject this program, and may even refuse to return to the team, continue to ask for pay.
In the first five rounds of the league, Qingdao temporarily ranked fifth in Guangzhou with two wins, one draw and two losses. If the team is unable to solve the immediate problems effectively, it is expected that the team will fall in the league ranking afterward. With only a few days to go before the team officially enters the Guangzhou Region, time is running out for the team, and some team officials are even pessimistic that due to the strong emotions of the players, the club may be shut down and the team may no longer travel to Guangzhou to compete.
If we can't wait for a satisfactory result, the psychological condition of other players remaining in the team is also facing collapse. This is like a "time bomb", increasing the risk of injury in the intensive schedule of the future. Many players are puzzled by the "unpaid wages": "None of our domestic players earn more than 3 million RMB per year, and I believe that the total amount of their salaries is negligible compared to other teams in the Chinese Super League. If the club is really in trouble, we will certainly understand. Unpaid wages are normal, what club isn't in trouble nowadays? But we all know that's not the reason, so [the salary arrears] are really a bit hard to figure out."
QUESTION - Boss still buys yacht in first half of the year
With Tianjin, Hebei, Chongqing and other teams of the parent company's operational difficulties, Qingdao club's parent company, Huanghai Pharmaceutical's business situation is relatively good, the past few years, the club has been to maintain stable operations, but why this year has been exposed to serious salary arrears problem? According to the reporter's understanding, this is caused by a number of factors.
Before the super, Qingdao club's operating funds mostly rely on the back of the parent company Huanghai Pharmaceuticals in the form of a loan "blood transfusion", after all, the expenditure of the League is not big, good at careful budgeting, small business Qingdao team basically able to maintain a balanced income and expenditure, rarely in the funds on the problem. But from last year, by the epidemic and other factors, the success of the Qingdao team did not get the parent company's "blood transfusion" support, last year, part of the sponsor funds to the account, the club line will be used to repay the funds to the parent company to pay back all the team's expenditures in the year of the super.
However, in the past year, with the strong support and assistance of the relevant parts of the Qingdao team obtained 250 million yuan of operating funds, so the club's operation has not been affected too much. Although the team has also suffered salary arrears, but the situation was "only delayed not owed", basically every three months to receive a payment, coaches and players in the past year's salary until the beginning of this year to all clear.
This year's situation is very different, in the club name neutralization reform, the Chinese Super League will make way for the 12 strong face full suspension and other irresistible factors, Qingdao team can receive sponsorship funds plummeted 160 million yuan, so the club's survival faced a great test. However, in the municipal government and other parties to vigorously support, a 30 million funding fee in the recent past into the club's account, the money was able to make up for the salary arrears of the gap to deal with the team's immediate needs. Just money to the account so far, Qingdao team coaches, players still no one to receive the top repeatedly promised to make up for the pay, the 30 million funding is likely to have long been diverted to other uses.
Sources pointed out that the team is now in danger, the club chairman Richard Wang seems to be "two ears do not hear things outside the window", he bought a luxury yacht in the first half of this year to go out on the sea, but I have never been present at the club to face the team to deal with the problem of unpaid wages. "The club is not no money, but the money does not know where to go!" Such a voice represents the thoughts of most of the team. For this query, perhaps we can only wait for the chairman to answer in person.
