Besides mentioning a few star players, Xing Baohua also asked Zhao Shanhai to gather a few more backups, in case the players he mentioned didn't show up.
Some issues aren't about money; they're about your career. So it's good to have multiple options.
The 1989 Jia-A League actually had only 8 teams. Among these 8 teams, two were special: one was the national team's second team, and the other was the Bayi team.
The remaining six teams were all formed by the six provincial teams, and the players were selected by their respective provincial sports training teams.
Those who can enter the provincial sports training team will basically have the opportunity to participate in the National Games or become national team members.
The team members of this era are simple-minded, born for honor, and striving for success.
The salary levels are all the same, ranging from forty to over one hundred. To earn more, you have to work harder and shed more blood to first get an advanced award and then a prize.
Early ball games were like Antarctic snow—pure and pristine. They believed in fairness and fought hard. The audience was thrilled watching them.
Losing is not shameful. If your skills are not good enough, that's fine. There's a gap in skill, and you have to accept that. There's nothing shameful about it.
Those who smash their TVs while watching a game are truly passionate about their team, showing their frustration and disappointment – those are the die-hard fans.
The entry of capital disrupted this balance, bringing in foreign coaches and foreign players.
Capital doesn't enter for honor; it enters for money. To make money, one needs a respectable honor, hence the emergence of various methods, such as external and internal trading platforms.
Player salaries have also changed, and I've heard plenty of claims that scoring a goal can buy you a house.
The salary level of the Luzhong team is relatively good. They receive salaries from the Sports Commission and subsidies from DaMi (a rice company), and their average salary level is higher than that of other teams. Most importantly, they also have a foreign coach hired by DaMi Technology Group.
Foreign coaches earn high salaries and use internationally standardized scientific training facilities. Yet, they failed to qualify for the Jia-A League this year.
Many people saw this as a joke. As for the claim that "foreign monks can chant sutras," it's absurd that foreign monks can't chant sutras.
The reason why the Shandong team failed to advance was due to many factors, but their lack of technical skill was the most fatal. They couldn't execute the coach's tactics, or even understand them.
The team's long pass turned into a clearance.
I told you to make a quick short pass and break through, huh? It's at the opponent's feet.
Your strategy of playing defense and counter-attacking has turned into a turtle formation. What was originally a good 4-4-2 has become a 1-8-1 formation.
Even if you have a world-class coach, it's all for naught if you're facing players with poor fundamentals.
Either the player can't hold onto the ball, or they can't protect it after getting it, or...
In short, there are many reasons, another one being the lack of attention given to the players. Since Wei Lesson left, the players have been left to their own devices.
With salaries like this, what's the point of being proactive? They might be disbanded tomorrow anyway.
Anyway, since they're no longer playing football, they can go to other organizations to become teachers or coaches.
To break the salary balance structure, clubs need to be established. Clubs with institutional characteristics should be resolutely rejected, as they will disrupt the balance, while clubs with a balanced structure will make it easy for members to join.
If Batista comes, with a net annual salary of $3 million, that's an average of $250,000 per month. Even someone earning $100 a month would be anxious, let alone someone earning $40 a month.
An unbalanced salary structure is a ticking time bomb, and you never know when it will all explode.
Xing Baohua planned that after the club was established, in addition to the second team continuing to enjoy the special training, a few veterans from the first team would stay, and the rest would go back to wait for reassignment.
As for the players to be added, they will be selected from various provinces.
The advantages of joining the Luzhong Rice Team are: firstly, a starting salary of over 10,000 yuan; secondly, housing allocation; and thirdly, a bonus system.
Learn from the development of top foreign teams and become a top domestic team.
You start from a higher point than others, but the downside is that you have to be able to withstand others throwing mud at you.
The salary structure is unacceptable to other teams, who even complain about its unfairness.
These days, where are the profit points in football? Even getting sponsorships isn't enough to guarantee success. Can you compete with capital by simply spending money?
Therefore, the Jia-A League inevitably needs a transition period to become the initial accumulation of capital. After the transition, it will eventually reach the Chinese Super League model.
The game is still as exciting as ever, it's just gotten dirty and filthy.
Just like General Fan said, who doesn't like money? I just prefer it clean.
The initial eight teams were like the old eight stocks listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. How many of them were able to adapt to the new rules?
In recent times, apart from administering acupuncture, Xing Baohua has been meeting with Wei Laisong every day to discuss matters or meet with people from the General Administration of Sport.
Although the meetings were all in private, Wei Laisong used his family connections to find a policy way out and get Luzhong Rice a club status.
Xing Baohua's reason was to learn from the advanced experience of other top clubs, bring in players, and improve the level of competition.
When people compete behind closed doors, it's like reinventing the wheel. Many things can't be seen just by looking.
Just like imported engines, even if you buy them, take them apart and study them, you still can't figure out the underlying principles.
In any case, everything is aimed at improving the competitive level of football. Corporate investment drives the overall improvement of professional skills, and similarly, teams will bring in foreign players, which in turn stimulates the performance of local players during training.
The General Administration of Sport, which he met privately, also acted as an advisor, helping him determine what was feasible and what was not. Wei Laisong even wrote a plan of more than eighty pages for this purpose.
As for which players to invite, it's hard to answer right now. We're still in the selection process, and whether they're willing to come is another matter entirely.
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