On August 30, FIFA released its 2011-2020 annual report on the global transfer market. In this annual report, the Asian soccer field of the Chinese Super League and West Asian clubs, together occupy the top 20 Asian transfer investment list in the past ten years. Among them, the Chinese Super League undoubtedly played a leading role. 11 clubs are on the list, 8 of the top 10 are Chinese Super League clubs, the top four of the list are all covered by Chinese Super League clubs....... Countless international soccer stars have flocked to China, which has made the Chinese Super League in the past ten years have the reputation of "the world's sixth largest league "The Chinese Premier League has become the sixth largest league in the world in the past decade. However, it seems that this dream should wake up.
In terms of clubs' reinforcement spending over the past decade, the top 20 in Asia are occupied by 11 Chinese Super League teams, 4 Saudi teams, 2 Qatari teams and 3 UAE teams. Further analysis shows that of those 11 CSL clubs on the list, eight are in the top 10, with the top four spots all occupied by Chinese Super League clubs, namely Guangzhou, Shanghai Harbour, Jiangsu Suning and Shandong Taishan. Beijing Guoan ranked 7th, Dalian People 8th, Shanghai Shenhua 9th and Tianjin Tianhai 10th. in addition, Hebei ranked 12th, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers 17th and Guangzhou City 19th. People traditionally think of countries like Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as "rich", but in terms of Asian soccer clubs, the Chinese Super League teams have completely overwhelmed the West Asian teams in the past 10 years.
In the last decade, all 11 clubs have had players who have been "No. 1" in international soccer. Guangzhou have had Paulinho, Robinho and Diamanti; Harbour have had Hulk, Arnautovic and Oscar, who is still in the team; Suning have had Teixeira and Ramirez; Taishan have had Fellaini and Italian international Pelé; Guiaoan have had Augusto and Bieira; Dalian have spent a lot of money to bring in Carrasco and Long Dong; Shenhua have shaken the international football world with Drogba and Tevez; Hebei have had Witsel and Pato; Tianjin Tianhai have had Witsel and Pato; Hebei have had Drogba and Pato; Tianjin Tianhai have had Witsel and Pato; Hebei have had Witsel and Pato; Tianjin Tianhai have had Witsel and Pato. Drogba and Tevez have shaken the international soccer world; Tianjin Tianhai has introduced Witsel and Pato; Hebei has the Argentine combination of Mascherano and Lavezzi; Zimmen Tigers have introduced Mikel and Wagner; Guangzhou City has introduced Moussa Dembele in addition to the goal scorer king Zahavi to earn a lot of money.
Because of these international stars coming and going, the Chinese Super League once had the name of "the world's sixth largest league". In addition to the transfer fees for imported players, the rights to the league have also risen, and in 2015, the rights to the Chinese Super League for the five-year period from 2016 to 2020 were sold for a staggering 8 billion dollars. At the same time, the Chinese Super League has also begun to broadcast live in England and Brazil, traditional countries of soccer. Jinmen Tigers' current foreign aid player, Magno, said in an interview that he can see the Chinese Super League in Brazil and has followed the performance of his old teammates like Augusto.
The prosperity of the Chinese Super League in the past 10 years was made with stacks of money. Now that the era of gold dollar soccer is over, no one mentions the title of "the world's sixth largest league" anymore. Guangzhou, once a juggernaut, now has an all Chinese team, and the club's owner, Evergrande Group, has begun to sell its unfinished professional soccer stadiums as a way to ride out the group's economic crisis. In addition, last season's Chinese Super League champions Jiangsu Suning and Tianjin Tianhai, who once made it to the last eight of the AFC Champions League, have now disappeared. The Tianjin Tigers, on the other hand, are reloading after some crises and setbacks. As for the Hebei team, from coaches to players are still struggling to make ends meet now.
More generally, the stars who once came to the Chinese Super League have pretty much left. Against the backdrop of the Chinese Super League's salary restriction, no star is willing to sign with a Chinese Super League club anymore. At the same time, affected by the epidemic, players like Paulinho and Augusto, this also with the Chinese Super League team to terminate the contract. In the post-golden dollar era of the Chinese Super League, "giant crocodiles" and "oligarchs" are disappearing, and "state-owned capital" and "equity changes" have become buzzwords. "become hot words. Now, Shandong Taishan and Henan Songshan Longmen have now become the forerunner, the two teams of the local culture and tourism group to take over the club, become a sign of the start of the Chinese Super League club mixed reform. Next, Guangzhou team, harbor team and Shenhua team such as the "giants", also want to change.
Among them, Shenhua Club is now a larger dynamic. In August last year, the Ministry of Housing and Construction, the Central Bank called a meeting of real estate enterprises to put forward three regulatory requirements, which is commonly known as the "three red lines" - in addition to the pre-collections of the gearing ratio shall not be greater than 70%, the net gearing ratio shall not be greater than 100%, the cash to short debt ratio shall not be less than one times. According to the number of red line, real estate enterprises are divided into green, yellow, orange, red four gears. A full year later, after many real estate enterprises have implemented a series of leverage reduction measures, Chinese Super League fans unexpectedly found that if you look at the "Top 50 listed real estate enterprises 'three red lines' list" upside down, you can see a lot of familiar names. This also includes Shenhua Club's investor Oasis Group.
Screenshot from the public website "GlobeNewswire Property Market".
In the Chinese super soccer "real estate market" to the end of the current, only input not output soccer club, become the burden of a number of real estate investors. Now the news is that Oasis Group has begun to contact with the state-owned investment and operation holding company Jiuzhi Group. Now there is news that Jiuzhi Group may acquire Shenhua Club's training base, Kangqiao Base, which is also regarded as a signal for Jiuzhi Group to invest in Shenhua Club. In fact, as early as 2000, Jiuzhi Group has been jointly funded with six other state-owned enterprises to take over Shenhua. However, the Shenhua club and then repeatedly changed ownership, until the Oasis Group in 2014 into Shenhua.
Shenhua Club Chairman Wu Xiaohui
Shanghai Shenhua club chairman Wu Xiaohui recently said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency, Shenhua club actual controller Oasis Group from the 1990s to carry out mixed ownership reform, Shenhua embraced the equity diversification reform, but also happy to be the first to try. Now, although the equity reform of the Chinese Super League clubs will allow the Chinese Super League to leave the so-called "world's sixth largest league" title, but the relative social responsibility of state-owned enterprises, operational stability, more state-owned enterprises to participate in the club's equity diversification reform, the stable development of the professional league, the benefits should outweigh the disadvantages.
