WeChat***Sports Economic Observation (ID: titansportsindustry), Author: He Yi, Title Picture**: Visual China On December 12, the new training list of the Chinese men's national football team was released. This training camp is also focused on the Asian Cup to be held in Qatar in January next year, and the results are found in the listNaturalized players Ackerson and Fernando once again lost their names to Sun Shan. Among them, Exxon has missed the Chinese team list for two consecutive periods, and after losing the World Preliminaries, he missed the Asian Cup again, which also shows that he is no longer in Jankovic's plan. As for Fernando, since the change of coach of the Chinese team, he has never been called up again.
For a while, this move also caused controversy in the outside world: Could it be that the "mercenary era" of the Chinese men's football team ended absurdly?
Not only naturalized by non-consanguinity,Jiang Guangtai and Li Ke, two blood relatives, are currently on the fringe of the Chinese team. After the first two rounds of the World Cup qualifiers round of 36, Li Ke has begun to lose his main position in the team, and even had to be reduced to a substitute for Wang Shangyuan, who made a miraculous contribution in the rain battle in Bangkok. Although Jiang Guangtai was absent from the last training camp due to injury, it is said that because of the risk of playing in the championship match with Shandong Taishan, he had no intention of reporting to the national team, and flew directly to Dubai without going to Shenzhen, which also aroused the disgust of many people inside and outside the circle. Coupled with the rapid rise of Wu Shaocong, Zhu Chenjie, and Jiang Shenglong's new generation of post-00 central defenders, Jiang Guangtai's position in the Chinese team is also precarious in the future.
Therefore, it is likely that in the future, even Jiang Guangtai and Li Ke are afraid that they will follow in the footsteps of Ackerson and be eliminated from the national team little by little. At that time, it will also be a time to declare the complete failure of the naturalization strategy once and for all.
Is it worth the move of naturalization?Although this topic is the opinion of the benevolent and the wise, the ending of "chicken feathers in one place" is unstoppable.
1. 2.5 billion burns money like running water.
In fact, it has only been four years since the naturalization strategy was implemented. I think that at the beginning, the rise of naturalization was also around the Asian Cup. In January 2019 in the United Arab Emirates, when the Chinese men's football team defeated Thailand and entered the Asian Cup quarterfinals, Beijing Guoan, who was far away in Europe, officially announced the signing of Yannaris (Chinese name Li Ke) and Hou Yongyong. This was also the first batch of naturalized players in Chinese football at that time. In order to get them, the Guoan team also spent a lot of transfer fees, such as Li Ke, who joined at a price of 5.5 million euros. Although Hou Yongyong only spent 1 million euros at that time, he was not yet 23 years old, and he also received a high salary of 5 million yuan. As for Li Ke, his annual salary has reached 16 million.
After that, Li Ke has played for the Guoan team for 5 years so far, with a total salary of about 80 million, plus a transfer fee of 5.5 million euros (about 43 million yuan), and Beijing Guoan has spent 1 on the former Arsenal player alone2.3 billion. And Hou Yongyong's total cost is also 27.8 million yuanIt can be seen that the total amount of money spent on these two people has reached 1500 million.
However, in the tide of naturalization that year, although Beijing Guoan was the pioneer, it was not the most money-burning financier. However, Guangzhou Evergrande, owned by Xu Jiayin, although it is a little hindsight in the matter of naturalization, how fierce the future is to exert force. In 2019 alone, the transfer fees, wages and settling-in fees paid by Evergrande Club for 5 naturalized players Ackerson, Goulart, Alain, Luo Guofu, and Fernando were as high as 8700 million. And the annual salary of these 5 people is also quite expensive: Goulart's annual salary is 13 million euros, Alain and Exxon are 10 million euros, Fernando is 8 million euros, Luo Guofu is 5 million euros, and Jiang Guangtai is 3 million euros, which is equivalent to about 3 yuan600 million.
This is not counting Jiang Guangtai and Xiao Taotao, who have the flavor of "50 steps and 100 steps", according to comprehensive calculations, before the arrears of wages occurred in October 2021, the fees paid by Guangzhou Evergrande for the above 7 naturalized players were about 2 billion yuan. And this money is enough to bring in 4 Oscars, obviously, from the perspective of the final harvest, Evergrande's naturalization strategy is extremely cost-effective. At the club level, it only brought one Chinese Super League title and one AFC Champions League semi-finals;At the level of the national football team, it is even more "lost" to almost lose all its money.
However, not only Guoan and Evergrande, but also Delgado, which was introduced by Shandong Taishan, was also a loss-making transaction. It seems that the transfer fee of 800,000 euros is very cheap, but the annual salary reaches about 22 million yuan. In the past 5 years, the Shandong team has also spent about 1100 million yuan.
In addition, like Shanghai Shenhua's naturalized Qian Jie, a transfer fee of 1.25 million euros, plus an annual salary of 5 million yuan, basically has a cumulative cost of 30 million yuan. As for Cao Yangzheng, Chen Jiayu and others, although they did not receive too many naturalization fees because of their low resumes, their annual salaries were also expensive. So, all things considered,In the first batch of naturalization projects in 2019, the total cost will be close to 2.5 billion yuan. Even if the Chinese Super League was in the Golden Yuan era, such a way of burning money was beyond imagination, and it was almost the budget standard for a championship team for 2 or 3 years.
Second, ultra-low cost performance is not worthy of the name.
However, after spending so much money in the football circle, what does Chinese football get for the naturalization project?After the baptism of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, people found that the performance of naturalized players was outrageous. Not to mention whether they can help the Chinese team in the qualifiers, even the most basic goals and assists are rare, and even some naturalized players are not qualified to represent the Chinese team at all. This makes one wonderNaturalizing these useless people, is it possible to make money from them?
In the last World Cup qualifiers, a total of six naturalized players were recruited: strikers Ackerson, Alan and Luo Guofu, winger Fernando, midfielder Li Ke and central defender Jiang Guangtai. Among them, although Fernando was recruited, he fell out with Li Tie's assistant Xue Shen, and then escaped for various reasons. And Li Ke only made a few appearances in the early days of the top 40 competition, but not only did he have no highlights during this period, but he never even got a start. When the round of 12 started, he faded out due to injury problems, of course, there is also a theory that in the early days of Li Tie's coaching, he fought with a southern international on the training ground, and was finally removed by the coaching staff.
As for the remaining 5 people, striker Ackerson seems to be majestic, but not only did he not score a single goal in the top 12, but the 4 goals in the top 40 were all scored by teams such as ** and Maldives. In the face of so-called powerhouses such as the Philippines and Syria, Exxon is sleepwalking and has achieved nothing. Alan is in a similar situation, making 10 appearances and scoring three goals, but these three goals were also scored against ** and the Maldives. As for Luo Guofu, he is the only naturalized player who scored in the round of 12, but it was also caused by a flash of inspiration, on the contrary, he frequently received yellow cards in the game, as well as dissatisfaction with the referee and coach, so that he finally buried the root cause, such as the first game after the change of coach of the Chinese team, because of the accumulation of two yellow cards and missed the game.
Actually, compared to those local Chinese players,The performance of the naturalized players can only be described as "thunder is loud and rain is small". In the 10 games of the top 12, the Chinese team scored a total of 9 goals, including Wu Lei scored 4 goals, Zhang Yuning, Wu Xi, Xu Xin, Zhu Chenjie and Luo Guofu scored 1 goal each, and the naturalized players also contributed 1 9 in the scoring rate. On the contrary, in the 1-3 defeat to Vietnam on the first day of the 2022 Lunar New Year, the naturalized group had a total of 3 starters (Alain, Loh Guofu and Chiang Quang Tai), but witnessed a dream start of 2-0 by the Vietnamese team in the first half. It wasn't until the national football team woke up from a dream and replaced Zhang Yuning and Wei Shihao to attack that they pulled back a goal in stoppage time.
However, it is even more regrettable when we cannot help but lament the poor performance of the Naturalized Legion in the World Cup qualifiersThere are many naturalized people who simply cannot represent the Chinese team in official continental competitions. For example, Qian Jieqi and Delgado, the former was selected for the Gabon national team and participated in 11 international A-level matches, even if he re-became a Chinese player through "restoration of nationality" in 2019, there is no way to play for the Chinese team again. Delgado's problem is even more complicated, he applied for Chinese nationality as a "special talent" without Chinese ancestry and without staying for 5 years, but such a "special talent" is almost impossible to play for the Chinese national team, but on these two players, it cost nearly 1400 million yuan.
In fact, even Jiang Guangtai did not have the opportunity to represent the Chinese team at the beginning, because he was selected for England's youth teams at all levels many times and participated in official continental competitions. But after FIFA revised the rules in September 2020 (if a player was under 21 years old when he played for the original association for the last time, it would not affect him to play for the new association), Jiang Guangtai was able to "get back to life". But judging from a series of games such as the World Cup qualifiers in the later stage, his arrival did not bring a qualitative change in the strength of the Chinese team.
However, the most regrettable for fans is Goulart. Due to being loaned to Palmeiras, Brazil, in the first half of 2019, it does not meet the rules of the association that the registration of professional players cannot be changed during the naturalization period. As a result, the continuous period of residence can only be recalculated from 2019. After that, Goulart also terminated his contract with Evergrande and returned to Brazil to renounce his Chinese nationality. However, Evergrande spent a total of nearly 800 million yuan to naturalize him, and in the end, when Gaolat retired, he only had to pay a handling fee of 50 yuan and a certificate of withdrawal of 200 yuan.
But not only Goulart, Hou Yongyong, who is related by blood, will also join Lanheim after quietly leaving the Beijing Guoan team in 2023. According to the club's official website, Hou Yongyong's nationality column is Norway, and the outside world is completely unexpected for his retirement.
From the naturalization of burning money before the 2019 Asian Cup, to the ebb of naturalization before the 2023 Asian Cup, there is no doubt thatThe vigorous naturalization of Chinese football has been declared a complete failure. In fact, even if Jiang Guangtai and Li Ke are still in the Chinese Super League, it is thanks to the two big clubs that can pay high salaries. Now, the attitude of Chinese football towards non-blood naturalization will not be as "crazy" as it was 4 years ago, regardless of the cost, but in recent years, with the return of a group of players who grew up overseas and have Chinese ancestry such as Yang Mingyang and Wang Yi, the direction of naturalization has also begun to change. In particular, the annual salary of these two people in Nantong Zhiyun and Wuhan Three Towns is only in the range of one or two million yuan, rational naturalization, pragmatic naturalization, and more cost-effective naturalization is the future direction of Chinese football.
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