In the face of unpaid wages, the Football Association can only “ostrich”
2022-04-25 18:34:20Source: Xi’an News Network
Xi’an News Network News With the end of the national team’s “14+7” isolation, the international players have returned to the club one following another. The new season, which has not yet finalized the start date, can be regarded as a formal operation in terms of personnel. For the Chinese Football Association, the biggest problem at present is to solve the club’s arrears of wages and the extension of the player transfer problem.
Dai Weijun seeks ruling
Dai Weijun, a young player who performed well in the final stage of the round of 12, has recently been the focus of the entire professional circle because he applied for a free transfer ruling from the Chinese Football Association on the grounds that his old club Shenzhen club owed wages.
Dai Weijun came to prominence in 2020. He just turned 20 when he returned from England and represented Shenzhen in the Chinese Super League, showing the vitality and talent of a modern midfielder. After only a few games, he was considered to be the successor of the future core of the national football midfield. people. Although following two seasons, Dai Weijun has performed very well and has established a firm foothold in the national team, but his income in the Shenzhen team is not high. The gap is huge. Even this salary, the Shenzhen club, which has been in economic crisis since last year, has been in arrears.
Today, Dai Weijun has received invitations from many clubs, and his ability is worthy of a big contract with a maximum salary. However, since Dai Weijun is still in the contract period with the Shenzhen club, Shenzhen will not let people go easily, which is why Dai Weijun applied for a ruling by the Football Association.
Why did the Football Association delay the ruling?
The famous players who applied for a free transfer with Dai Weijun are the former Evergrande main defender Gao Zhunyi. Gao Zhunyi, like Dai Weijun, also participated in the final stage of the top 12 competition, and the Evergrande club also owed his salary.
According to FIFA’s articles of association and the relevant regulations of the Chinese Football Association itself, arbitration lawsuits like Dai Weijun and Gao Zhunyi are actually very easy to handle. As long as the club owes players’ salaries and fails to settle them within a certain period of time, players can Join the new club as a freelancer. But it is this unquestionable ruling that is set in stone. What is the reason for the delay in the Chinese Football Association’s decision to make an arbitration decision?
It is not that the Football Association deliberately shies the buck, nor that the Football Association intends to stop Dai Weijun and their transfer applications, but because in the past two years, salary arrears have become the norm in the Chinese league. At present, only 4 clubs have not been owed wages. In other words, most of the players of the Chinese Super League clubs have the experience of owed wages, and the proportion of players who are still owed wages is quite high. Once they all apply for free agents on this ground, the transfer market of Chinese football will be completely chaotic.
The Football Association’s delay in giving Dai Weijun a ruling result is unwilling to cause players to follow suit on a large scale. A person familiar with the matter revealed that Dai Weijun’s application for ruling should be obtained when the transfer window is regarding to close.
The access system is temporarily abolished
According to the access rules for professional clubs previously formulated by the Chinese Football Association, any club that owes wages will not be able to gain access to the new season until the arrears of wages are settled. However, according to the current devastated operation of the Chinese League, if the entry rules are strictly followed, the Chinese Super League will not be able to proceed normally this year. Because in the negotiations between the Chinese Football Association and the club, some clubs have made it clear that “if we must ask to settle the arrears before the new season, then we have only one way out.”
In this regard, the Chinese Football Association has made compromises. In the new rules, clubs are required to settle all arrears of salaries several times in 2022. If they cannot do this, they will be severely punished. This is tantamount to opening a hole for clubs underpaid, and at the same time, it also reluctantly indicates that the previous club access rules will be temporarily voided this year.
It is quite funny that three clubs including Shenhua were ruled by FIFA that they “cannot introduce players” because of arrears in the salaries of foreign players. However, they still introduced players in this transfer window, of course not including foreign aid.
He Xiaolong, an all-media reporter from Xi’an Press
