Currently, the middle of our soccer
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Clubs in the league are generally facing operational difficulties. However, recently came an exciting news: the Chinese
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The Association may convene a meeting to discuss the issue of solving the problem of attracting aid adjustment fee. Once a consensus is reached, many clubs are expected to obtain a valuable "life-saving funds".
Since the 2017 summer transfer window, the Chinese
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The Association has implemented a reinforcement adjustment fee policy, which stipulates that Chinese Super League and Chinese League A clubs are required to pay an equal amount of reinforcement adjustment fee when the reinforcement fund for introducing foreign players exceeds RMB 45 million and domestic players exceeds RMB 20 million.
The original intent of the policy is to curb clubs from attracting reinforcements at high prices in pursuit of short-term results, so as to avoid overheating the market and affecting the healthy development of the league. It is planned that the fee will be earmarked for funding long-term planning projects such as youth soccer talent development and the construction of facilities for the public good of soccer.
Seemingly reasonable policy, in fact, has triggered a lot of controversy. On the one hand, the reinforcement adjustment fee lacks a clear legal basis, and is essentially just a
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Self-imposed industry rules. Despite the fact that the management of soccer is characterized by a certain degree of "professional autonomy", this fee still appears to be a misnomer.
In practice, although the Guangzhou team introduced the "Twin Towers", Beijing
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The introduction of Bakambu and Bieira, Shandong Taishan introduced Fellaini and many other attractions, the relevant clubs have paid the adjustment fee, but at the same time also appeared in the annual report of the Shanghai Hong Kong Group disclosed that the club did not pay Arnautovic attraction of the adjustment fee of the "episode". Shanghai Hong Kong said, intends to pay, but due to the
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Unable to issue receipts, this expenditure of up to $150 million can only be put on hold for the time being.
The reasoning of the SCOTUS, while reasonable, creates an objectively unjust double standard. After all, its
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Most of the competitors "honestly" pay this fee.
In addition.
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The use of the received reinforcement adjustment fee is also in a state of stagnation, and has not been heavily invested in projects conducive to the long-term development of soccer as expected, but is lying in the
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This is a de facto waste of money, as it "sleeps" in the accounts of the Government of the People's Republic of China.
According to People's Daily, in late March this year, the State Administration for Market Supervision and Administration sent officers to visit the Chinese on the issue of fee compliance
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Association, aiming to push it to rectify some of the unreasonable and unlawful fees it has historically charged.
Today, China's professional soccer environment has been very different from three or four years ago. Those who can easily pay a huge amount of attraction adjustment fee of the luxury teams, are now looking forward to this fee as a "life-saving money". Guangzhou and Beijing
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It is proposed to use it to pay back wages in arrears, and Shanghai Shenhua can use it to repay former manager Flores, who won a lawsuit.
For China's professional soccer in the winter, the reinforcement adjustment fee may only be a drop in the bucket, as most of the clubs that can afford to pay this fee are non-giant clubs. But at least, it can now help these big clubs to alleviate their urgent needs. Since this money has not been able to play its proper role of "promoting development", now it is used to "maintain the livelihood", which is also a kind of mending the fold.
"Attracting aid adjustment fee" may soon become "past time". The reason for the failure of this initiative, in addition to force majeure, more from the soccer administrators in the formulation of the rules of the poorly thought out and implementation of the chaos of ineffective, worthy of further reflection.
