On the plane back to China, Zhang Sheng was still thinking about the club's expenses.
It’s not that the Dragon Team has no money, nor is it that Zhang Sheng is reluctant to give up money.
In the past few years, Zhang Sheng, who has appeared in front of the public as the second generation of super rich people, has not made less money.
Although the club belongs to itself, in terms of salary, in order to ensure the normal structure of the club's salary and at the same time be consistent with Zhang Sheng's status, Zhang Sheng's annual salary is not low.
Nowadays, Chinese Super League clubs offer very good prices for local coaches, especially capable local coaches.
The annual salary of veteran coach Wang Baoshan is close to 6 million; coaches with certain experience such as Hao Wei and Li Xiaopeng also earn between 3 and 5 million. The highest rising star, such as Li Gang, when he was in China Fortune,
Holds an annual salary of more than 6 million.
As the man who has contributed the most players to the national team, Zhang Sheng is the head coach of the Chinese Super League team Longteng, the leader of the domestic football tactics trend, the light of local coaches, and the godfather of youth football. The annual salary of 8 million yuan offered by the club is already very high.
Great value for money.
Considering that it is basically impossible for Zhang Sheng to coach in other domestic clubs, many Chinese Super League and even Chinese League One clubs have set their sights on the only Chinese coach who coaches in a European football powerhouse - Gao Hongbo.
It has been rumored that some clubs have offered Gao Hongbo a high salary of 20 million yuan per year.
Thanks to Gao Hongbo's determination and resistance to the temptation of money, he once laughed at himself in daily communication with Zhang Sheng: "I am here (Deutsche Second Division) now, and my annual salary does not exceed 300,000 (
Euros), the income will be ten times as soon as I go back. After receiving the quotation, I struggled for a long time and didn’t go. Now I feel regretful.”
If Zhang Sheng can really go to coach another Chinese Super League club, it is estimated that a lot of clubs will be competing for his 50 million annual salary.
As the actual owners of the team, Zhang Sheng and his family own almost 70% of the club's shares through various financial means. Now Longteng Club is the number one stock in Chinese football. Because of its excellent results and excellent
With assets and good profits, the market value is as high as 23.2 billion, surpassing Real Madrid and Barcelona to become the world's number one football stock.
If calculated according to this ratio, Zhang Sheng and his family's net worth has exceeded 16 billion. Although the stock price is fictitious, this value is already higher than that of veterans like Yu Minhong, and even with extremely influential established brands like Cao Dewang and his wife.
Pretty rich.
In fact, what the outside world doesn't know is that as a time traveler, Zhang Sheng's return on investment was extremely high even though the dividends from time travel have disappeared now.
Zhang Sheng lives an extremely low-key life. When the outside world sees him, he always wears suits with the Longteng Club logo, even coaching uniforms, various luxury goods, and high consumption. He is basically out of reach. Even the things he has been doing...
Youth education and football charity are also silent.
At the same time, due to his two lifetimes, material enjoyment is not something that Zhang Sheng deliberately pursues.
Therefore, purely from a personal benefit perspective, Zhang Sheng does not need to consider how much money the club makes.
Zhang Sheng was thinking about what kind of example and image the Longteng team should set up as a benchmark for the Chinese Super League. As an iconic figure in the Chinese Super League, how should he speak to the upper-level department leaders to suppress overheated and even crazy investment in domestic football?
A reckless attitude.
In actual history, the Chinese Super League began financial consolidation after the national team was eliminated, various national teams suffered a disastrous defeat, and signs of difficulties in the operation of various clubs emerged.
Considering that there is an acceptance process, the Chinese Football Association's approach is still very gentle. Not only does it provide a three-year buffer period, but the penalties for violations are also more humane, and they all impose layered restrictions on signings.
, the most severe one is only the penalty points for sending too many bonuses.
In comparison, UEFA's Financial Fair Play Act is one-size-fits-all. In addition to not allowing signings during the season, it may even directly disqualify the team from participating in UEFA competitions. This will cause huge losses to the team.
Even more stringent are the regulations of the J-League. They do not have such things as salary caps, but they have very high financial requirements for clubs. If they have a financial deficit for three consecutive years, the club will be denied access, and the result will be the team being relegated, so the J-League
Most clubs control wage expenditure below 30% of the team's total expenditure.
Corresponding to mature leagues such as European football and the J-League are the sky-high player salaries and head coach salaries in the Chinese Super League.
Not to mention the salaries of top foreign players like Diego Costa and Hulk Oscar, which have been complained about by sports media around the world, let’s talk about Lippi’s annual salary of 20 million euros, which beats Guardiola and Anche.
There are top world-famous coaches like Lottie, not to mention a bunch of coaches in the Chinese Super League with annual salaries exceeding hundreds of millions of euros.
No wonder Gao Hongbo held back his words after talking to Zhang Sheng on the phone: "I can no longer understand domestic football now."
What Gao Hongbo couldn't understand was these unbalanced expenses.
Today has entered mid-September 2017, and the season is coming to an end. The Chinese Football Association has begun to contact the Chinese Super League clubs early to prepare for the summary meeting and the mobilization meeting for the new year in more than two months.
In the past, most of the contact and communication process between the Football Association and clubs was a process of coordinating the interests of both parties. The Football Association made many demands to the clubs, and the clubs also made many suggestions to the Football Association. But when it comes to the formulation of football policies, more
It comes from the unilateral wishes of the mother-in-law of the Football Association.
Since the g7 club forced to surrender in 2004, the clubs that threatened to withdraw from the league with the slogan "the whistle continues to blow, the boss continues to lose money" have all learned that sensitive topics should not be touched in the country.
After all, this incident is an attempt within the current domestic system to use the power of capital to abandon administrative supervision and build a pure capital operation system, thereby gaining capital dominance over specialized professional sports.
The "Seven Gentlemen" incident, if taken seriously, can be seen as a challenge to the country's large-scale system of "party committee responsibility, administrative supervision, capital investment, and special operations". It has the wrong nature of "direction" and is also political.
The governance is not correct. In this case, the result of the conflict of interests can only be the failure of the challenging party.
However, Zhang Sheng is not prepared to challenge these things this time. What he wants to do is to play the role of a whistleblower, pouring water on the crazy investment in the Chinese Super League. To put it bluntly, Zhang Sheng is planning to be a club camp this time.
The twenty-five boys inside.
How arrogant has Chinese football become after qualifying? Many fans, not just fans, including a large number of industry insiders, believe that Chinese football far surpasses Japan and South Korea.
Their argument is still very sufficient: the Chinese team beat South Korea to qualify for the World Cup, the Chinese Super League clubs beat Japanese and Korean clubs, and the two Chinese Super League teams entered the East Asia AFC Champions League finals.
What they don't know is that once the Longteng team and the players from the Longteng team are put aside, the Chinese team has basically no hope of qualifying, and the Chinese Super League teams will basically slowly lose their advantage.
What's even more frightening is that they don't know that many professional clubs in the country are now unsustainable.
Because of Zhang Sheng's emergence, the national team and the Chinese Super League have benefited greatly, but at the same time, it has also impacted many related teams and has become a real x factor.
Those most affected by the impact are the weaker teams.
Without Longteng and its players, clubs like Yanbian Fude, Liaoning Hongyun, Changchun Yatai, and Hangzhou Greentown would be much better off.
The scarcity of good domestic players gives these clubs, which rely on selling people to make a living, enough room for a premium to sell their own good players.
However, the Dragon Team arrived.
The results of the Longteng team have allowed their players to easily rank ahead of the players that other clubs are ready to sell. Not to mention, after the arrival of the Longteng team, the performance of some good players in these clubs was not as dazzling as in real history.
It has become difficult to sell these players at high prices.
Players are not selling well, but the atmosphere in the Chinese Super League has become more intense due to the emergence of the Longteng team, and the corresponding investment is also higher.
This entry and exit has made the operation of these clubs increasingly difficult.
Not to mention, a large number of players from the Dragon Team's echelon also accounted for the previous sales of these clubs to lower-level leagues. Like the Dragon Team's reserve team, every year there are ten people who are trying to advance to the second or even the first league.
The team bought it, after all, the Longteng team's reserve team is the league champion of the reserve team every year, and the players are all hot commodities.
The news Zhang Sheng learned from reliable sources is that Yanbian Fude, currently ranked last, is relegated. To make matters worse, their club has not paid wages for more than half a year, and investor Fude has made it clear that it will not
Keep investing.
Similar to Yanbian Fude is Liaoning Hongyun. Those who want to sell it have always had poor sales in recent years. It is not as easy to sell as it was a few years ago. Even the players who are sold are priced at a much lower price than in history.
Coupled with the irreconcilable conflict between the boss of the Eighth Army and the Liaoning Sports Bureau, Boss Wang has shouted more than once that he would sell the team and his shares. In the past two years, he even offered Quan Jian a high price of one billion, but he was restrained.
The boss flatly refused.
At the end of last year, the team did not pay back wages for three months. Liaoning Hongyun did not pay the basic salary until they barely managed to avoid relegation. The promised relegation bonus was delayed, which made the team's morale completely low after the start of this season.
collapsed.
Hongyun's boss Wang is no longer confident this season, and the team transfer price he announced to the outside world is only 400 million.
The story behind Dare Lion's big mouth is that in addition to the bonuses promised by Hongyun, their salaries have not been paid for three months, and even the team's foreign players are preparing to leave.
The league has reached the 24th round. Liaoning Hongyun and Yanbian Fude have 15 points and 14 points respectively. They have become brothers and have booked two relegation places in the Chinese Super League this season.
It can be predicted with confidence that once these two teams are relegated, the halo of the Chinese Super League quota will disappear, and the owed salaries and bonuses, coupled with external debts, will wipe out the two teams.
If most of the Chinese Super League teams are losing money and are provided by the parent companies behind them, and these parent companies are generally quite good, and the only difficulties are these two, then the Chinese League One and Chinese League Two teams are different.
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Thinking back to the beginning, the Longteng team also rose up step by step from the amateur league to the Chinese Second Division, and then to the Chinese First Division. Zhang Sheng understood the situation very well.
Wage arrears can be said to be a common situation in lower leagues.
The Chinese Super League clubs still pay some dividends every year to ensure basic subsistence income, while low-level clubs with absolutely no income are having an extremely difficult time facing increasing competition for relegation and promotion.
Guang Zhangsheng knew that there were as many as ten Chinese League One and League Two teams that were to be disbanded and changed hands.
It can be said that in addition to the superficial scenery, the foundation of the entire Chinese professional football has begun to shake.
On September 14th, Zhang Sheng brought the team back to China. Considering the fatigue from the continuous away games at home and abroad, he gave the players a day off. The players could rest, but Zhang Sheng was ready to spend time with his family.
Discuss it.
"No!" Zhang Zhijun's reply showed no possibility of discussion. He seemed extremely decisive, "This matter is not something that we as a club can raise."
"Our club has not put forward a position of financial balance." Perhaps his attitude just now was too rigid. Zhang Zhijun was afraid that Zhang Sheng and himself would contradict him, so he softened his tone, "I don't know how crazy the football circle is now? Evergrande's
Doesn’t Lao Xu know? Don’t the bosses of other clubs know? Don’t any of you know? But sometimes the whole environment leads to a dilemma like collective unconsciousness.”
"Many times people don't take the word "involuntarily" seriously, but once you really enter that circle, you really can't help yourself." Sighing, Zhang Zhijun continued, "I mentioned the stance just now. Your club is rare.
A profitable club. And a profitable club with good results."
"Now everyone is losing money and investing money in it to engage in an arms race. You, a person who has made money and achieved results, tell everyone not to continue investing money. What do you want the fans outside to think? You let these people work hard.
, what do you think of people who are prepared to spend money to get results, and then rely on results to promote their company's brand? Finally, what do you want those who really want to speculate to think?" Zhang Zhijun asked rhetorically.
Looking at Zhang Sheng who still looked dissatisfied, Zhang Zhijun patted Zhang Sheng's arm: "Zhang Sheng, remember that everyone's mouth wins the gold."
Zhang Chen, who had been sitting next to him silently, echoed a few words sincerely: "Brother, we have all seen what you have done in the past few years after returning to China. Your achievements in the past few years, your attitude towards football, especially
It is the contribution and planning of domestic football, and everyone in our family knows it. If you do this, according to the rules of football, yes, that's right. But sometimes, there are some things that we have to consider. You should also think about it.
"
Neither his father nor his brother supported him!
Waves of powerlessness surged into Zhang Sheng's chest.
In Jiangcheng in mid-September, the night was already a bit chilly, but Zhang Sheng, who came out of his father's house, felt unexplainably hot all over his body. It wasn't until the car started to drive that the oncoming wind blew in through the window and calmed him down a little.
Under the gorgeous night lights, the prosperity of the metropolis is just like Chinese football today.
