On July 10th, Qingdao Football Salon released a heavy announcement: the player Ba Li was punished for violating the team rules and regulations, assaulting the team masseur and having a negative attitude in the warm-up match, insulting the vice-coordinator and the coaching team after being replaced by the coach, and even physically hitting the assistant coach, which is a very bad influence, and was therefore subject to a three-stop penalty.
The seemingly calm Dalian training program is in fact a turbulent situation, Qingdao team is full of contradictions. In the case of five consecutive months of unpaid wages, "Ba Li incident" is just the tip of the iceberg, all the contradictions have reached the tipping point.
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A salon leader who was on the spot to supervise the game watched and was anxious. He hurried down to the stands, both to deal with the conflict triggered by Ba Li and to resolve the conflict between the two players. However, he knew that the only way to resolve all the conflicts in front of him was to solve the salary issue.
Qingdao's only paychecks to arrive this year were only one month's salary and the win bonus for the first game against Cangzhou Lions. Earlier, Salon executives had promised to pay the salary within a month, but the promised time point was delayed again and again, and finally set on July 13th. Sources close to the matter revealed that Qingdao city authorities have allocated more than 30 million yuan to the team to alleviate the urgent need. But whether the funds are used for player salaries and how much the one-time payment will be, there is no conclusion yet. It is certain that once the salon again issued part of the salary, several foreign aiders who returned to the team on their own are likely to reject this program, and may even refuse to return to the team and continue to ask for salary.
In the first five rounds of the league, Qingdao temporarily ranked fifth in the Guangzhou division with two wins, one draw and two losses. If the team is unable to effectively solve the immediate problems, it is completely predictable that the team will fall in the league afterward. Now that there are only the last few days before the team officially settles into the Guangzhou Region, the team's time is already quite tight, and some team-related personnel even pessimistically believe that due to the players' strong emotions, the salon may stop and the team may no longer travel to Guangzhou to compete.
If we cannot get 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 earns more than 3 million RMB a year, and I believe that the total salary is negligible compared to other teams in the Chinese Super League. If the salon is really in trouble, we will certainly understand. Unpaid wages are normal, which salon isn't in trouble these days? But we all know that's not the reason, so [the salary arrears] really makes people a little bit puzzled."
QUESTION - Boss still buys yacht in first half of the year
With Tianjin, Hebei, Chongqing and other teams parent company's business is in trouble, different, Qingdao salon parent company Huanghai Pharmaceutical's business situation is relatively good, the past few years the salon has been to maintain stable operation, but why this year has been exposed to a serious problem of unpaid wages? According to the reporter's understanding, this is caused by a number of factors.
Before the Super League, Qingdao Salon's operating funds mostly rely on the parent company behind the Yellow Sea Pharmaceuticals in the form of a loan "blood transfusion", after all, the expenditure of the League is not large, good at careful budgeting, small operation of the 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, part of the sponsors last year after the arrival of funds, salon will immediately use the funds to the parent company repayment to pay back the team's super year of all the expenses.
It is no exaggeration to say that, with the strong support and assistance of the relevant departments, Qingdao team has obtained 250 million yuan of operating funds, so the operation of the salon 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 call, 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 name of the salon neutralization reform, the Chinese Super League will make way for the 12 to face the full suspension and other irresistible factors, Qingdao team can receive sponsorship funds plummeted by 160 million yuan, so the salon's survival is facing a great test. However, under the support of the municipal government and other parties, a 30 million yuan subsidy fee was paid into the account of the salon not long ago, and the money was able to make up for the shortfall in salary arrears to deal with the team's immediate needs. However, since the money has arrived, Qingdao's coaches and players still have not received the payroll promised by the senior management many times, and the 30 million yuan subsidy will probably be used for other purposes.
Sources pointed out that the team is now as dangerous as a pile of eggs, salon 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 to sea to play, I have never been present in the salon face to face the team to deal with the problem of unpaid wages." Salon is not no money, but money do 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.
