Recently, according to the domestic media "Netease Sports" quoted the British media "The Sun" as a report, "The Sun" specially sent a long article to analyze the collapse of Super League football, pointing out the chaos behind China football. Although all views may not be correct, the attitude of onlookers is also worth learning and reflecting.
The British media wrote: From a seemingly rising football power to a complete failure, the prosperity and collapse of football in China are so rapid and violent. At one time, China, like Saudi Arabia now, was the focus of football all over the world. In the 2016-17 season, the Super League began to burn unparalleled money. At that time, they were the most expensive leagues in the world. Super League teams use astronomical wages to attract top players to join, so as to become a football superpower and attract the attention of the world. Their expenses amounted to 320 million pounds, including signing an Oscar from Chelsea for 60 million pounds.
When talking about football in China, Charles Cardoso, president of a club in Sao Paulo, Brazil, said that everyone believed that China people would do something important in football. China’s transfer market is absolutely crazy. Everyone wants to send their players there because there is plenty of money there. China people think that you can play football if you have money, but money is not the whole of football. You must have correct management and planning. They only care about the present and don’t care about the future at all.
"The Super League just threw the money out, but it didn’t have any practical effect. For more than ten years, China football has been in ruins, and many football fields have been abandoned. Guangzhou Evergrande, the most successful team in the history of Super League, has a debt of up to 240 billion pounds. Many players didn’t get paid and sued FIFA. Suning Club directly closed down. " The article also mentioned. "In fact, the top-level idea of China managers is good, and the problem lies in the following planners and executors. These people don’t know what it means to host the World Cup, let alone win it. " Dr Rob Wilson, an expert on football finance in sheffield hallam university, believes that China people are trying to buy the gap in football development in the previous 150 years with money and want to win the World Cup. Facts have proved that this is impossible.
In addition, the report also mentioned that in April 2020, Evergrande started construction of a stadium with a capacity of 100,000 people at a cost of 1.4 billion pounds in Guangzhou. Investor Xu Jiayin said that this stadium will become a world-class landmark building like Sydney Opera House and Burj Khalifa in Dubai. However, after half of the construction, the stadium was confiscated by the government and auctioned.
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