Last season, the Wuhan Club quit midway and a series of negative effects made the top football league in China, which had been struggling for 15 season, suddenly fall to the bottom. However, when China football ushered in the Nan Yong era, people hoped that China football would have a new atmosphere. After all, as a football with high social concern and huge market space, China football has no way out. At this year's meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Cui Dalin, deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, also shouted the slogan "We should do a good job in football in China".
In the context of the global economic downturn, Italy's Pirelli Company became the title sponsor of this season's Super League on the 20th, which not only allowed the Super League to avoid the embarrassment of "streaking", but also showed the commercial value of the Super League from one side. After all, China has a huge number of fans. Even last season, the average audience of the Super League was close to 1.5 million.
Competitive strength and league environment are two major factors that determine whether professional football is attractive or not. This season, many Super League clubs have increased their capital investment and recruited a large number of people. The championship battle is expected to be a fierce melee, which will also become the basis for attracting fans' attention.
This season, four Chinese Super League teams participated in the AFC Champions League, which injected a shot in the arm into the competitive strength of the Chinese Super League. The biggest action is Beijing Guoan. After Beijing Sports Bureau invested 20 million yuan, it is said that Guoan Club invested 65.438+0.5 billion yuan this season. After introducing five foreign AIDS, including emil martinez, the best player in the Super League last season, Guoan shouted out the goal of winning the Super League and qualifying for the AFC Champions Group. Defending champion Shandong Luneng lost Zhou Haibin before the season, but they urgently brought in Bundesliga player Roda, and Han Peng, Wang Yongpo and Wang Xiaolong came back from injury. Luneng is still the number one favourite to win the league title this season. However, both Shanghai and Tianjin are ambitious, and using up five foreign aid places will definitely pose a great challenge to Beijing and Shandong. In addition, Changchun, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Chongqing and other teams have also made great efforts in attracting investment, which will definitely make the league competition more dynamic.
Compared with the improvement of the team's strength, it is more noteworthy that the China Football Association focuses on the league rectification and is committed to improving the league environment. According to the information revealed in the 2009 Super League meeting, this season, China Football Association has issued a series of regulations for referees, athletes and clubs, such as setting up a referee working group to strengthen the management of league referees, strengthening the media's evaluation and supervision of referees, and all the disciplinary committees of the Football Association are held by retired judges and lawyers. In addition, it is said that many ministries and commissions in the State Council will jointly crack down on the phenomenon of "fake poison and black" in the Super League.
In addition, specification is also a key word of this season's Super League. After the free transfer of Zhou Haibin and Feng Xiaoting, not only did the China Football Association modify the rules of players' transfer, but it also gradually conformed to the rules of FIFA. Many clubs have also strengthened the standardization of contracts with players. For example, Changchun team signed a five-year contract with key players, which is conducive to protecting the interests of both the club and the players.
Despite these positive changes, the Super League was not built in one day. For the terminally ill football in China, whether it can usher in real spring after the cold winter remains to be tested by time.
In 2009, less than 10% of the 480 players' transfer lists announced by the Football Association were successful. This also includes many players who went to the first team and the second team. The reason why the turnover rate is so low is mainly because the big environment under the financial crisis forced the club to tighten monetary policy and dare not spend a lot of money to expand its army. On the other hand, I hope that the players who are transferred out will sell at a good price. In the case of a serious deviation between supply and demand, it is reasonable that the transfer order is so "pitiful".
Judging from the turnover of players' transfer this year, it is also difficult to compare with that of that year. Zhejiang Greentown introduced five domestic workers in one breath, plus Wu, and the value of six people did not exceed 2 million. Lin Lefeng also said after completing the transaction: "According to last year's market, both Zhangye and Fan Xiao East may exceed 3 million. This year is mainly due to the bad environment. Facing the financial crisis, the buyer's market has become more cautious. If the price is set at the past price, many players will face a situation where there is no ball to play. "
On the one hand, the club greatly reduced its expenses, on the other hand, it invested limited funds in the introduction of foreign aid, which further depressed the domestic player transfer market. Especially the top clubs, due to the pressure of AFC Champions League, their signings focus on foreign aid, such as Shenhua. According to Zhu Jun, they spent more than 50 million yuan on foreign aid, but in terms of domestic aid, only one famous player from Chen Tao was introduced, and Chen Tao's worth was less than 3 million yuan.
Another reason for the downturn in the transfer market is the withdrawal of Wuhan Optics Valley, which also makes the transfer market tilt towards the buyer's market in an all-round way. For those buyers who want to bargain in the transfer market, dozens of Wuhan players have given them valuable resources. With so many choices, the transfer price will naturally decrease.
For Wuhan team, the 2008 season is doomed to be a disaster year. After being disqualified, they had to sell all the players. Although Wuhan said that it would not be sold cheaply, in fact, Wuhan has little right to speak at the transfer negotiation table. For example, three players, Luo Yi, Zhou Heng and Wu Peng, packed up and moved to chongqing lifan for only 600,000 yuan.
Judging from the transfer list, Wuhan has become the first blood bank. By February 20th, except Li Yinan and Ai Zhibo, all the other players basically found their next home. For some low-input teams, Wuhan players are indeed a group of high-quality resources.
In addition to the fact that there are no active international players on the transfer list, another prominent phenomenon is naturally the ownership of champions. In the transfer list over the years, the price of the winning bidder and the number of competitors have become the vane of the transfer market. In the transfer price list in 2007, as many as seven people were worth more than 4 million, and in 2006, five people were worth more than 4.5 million.
Compared with the bull market in previous years, this year's transfer fee list is a real bear market. Wang Xinxin, worth 4 million yuan, moved to Tianjin and was recognized as the champion of this season. In addition, only Chen Tao can compete with it, but according to Shenhua, its value is far from the rumored 7 million, and the real figure is definitely lower than 3 million. As for Yu Hai, who has been hyped for millions, his quotation is 2 million, and the actual transfer price is much lower than this figure.