After a night of brewing, Shandong Taishan Club finally issued a belated letter of apology more than ten hours after the fiasco. But it is clear that this letter of apology, which was criticized as nonsense, did not calm the anger of public opinion at all.
Looking at the 30-year history of the Taishan team, in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, they have lost many big games.
However, in the past, the Taishan team's big score loss was often caused by attacking with all their strength when they were behind, and the front could not be attacked, and the backfield was constantly counterattacked by the opponent. When the outside world ridiculed the tragedy, at least Shandong fans could still talk and say with masthesia, the team did not give up, they tried their best.
But if you look at this game again, the Tarzan team looked very relaxed from the first minute of the game; You can't see the fighting spirit of this team, a lot of the players showed on the pitch that they just don't want to play.
Then why are the players of the Taishan team on the field, and they can't even find their fighting spirit? Soon there were keyboard warriors on the Internet who guessed whether the Taishan team was in arrears again? But it is clear that this claim is baseless!
The budget of the Taishan team was made at the end of last year, and it was hit to the club's account at the beginning of the year, and the money for the player's salary was earmarked, so no matter how tight the Taishan team's funds were, it did not affect the player's bank card to have money coming in on time every month.
Of course, the income of many players of the Taishan team has indeed decreased, which is related to the tax compensation that was exposed before.
Why do we need to pay taxes? This just reflects the chaotic management of the Taishan team since the beginning of the 2023 season.
Since 2013, because there are various exemption policies, and the players of Luneng/Taishan have not paid taxes for winning awards for ten consecutive years. This policy expires at the end of the 2022 season, but in the 2023 season, the finances of the Taishan team will still be issued in accordance with the previous policy in the bonus distribution. When it comes to the annual review, the problem arises; What should I do if I don't have any funds left in my club account? Then the player can only be notified to pay the tax.
Of course you expect these players to take out the money they put in their pockets, that's absolutely impossible! The club thought of a way to make up for it by deducting part of the player's income this year, and then cutting the bonus in half, and some core players of Shandong said privately that he is now playing with 0 bonus.
For this situation, some players of the Taishan team are not very acceptable, which is also the reason why the team's record has had a brief ups and downs in April. It was during that time that some players who were affected by the back tax briefly missed some games; At that time, Cui Kangxi decisively reused Wu Xinghan, Huang Zhengyu, Gao Zhunyi, Zhao Jianfei, Mai Wulang, Delgado, Abdul Suli, these players who did not need to pay taxes or were very little affected by the back taxes, and received good results and helped the Taishan team through the first crisis of the season.
Originally, the outside world thought that as the team returned to the winning track, the crisis had temporarily passed; I never thought that the second crisis would come in the last intermission. Because everyone suddenly found out that the so-called tax supplement is only for domestic players, not for foreign aid. Judson and Cressan don't have to make up a point; There is a difference between China and foreign countries, and these players, who have basically come out of the influence, are directly on the field, and they have been lying flat from the psychological level.
The old players and the original main force are lying flat one after another, so why doesn't Choi Kang-hee reactivate those players who are less affected or not affected by the tax payment? It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he can't!
These teams, which are more affected by the tax back, are basically the core of the team and control the right to speak in the locker room.
Before they said that they were uncomfortable, injured, and couldn't kick, Cui Kangxi could naturally go on some substitutes who were willing to go up and play hard. But this time they didn't say they couldn't kick, did Cui Kangxi dare to take them down?
On the other hand, these players who were abandoned after helping Choi Kang-hee through the crisis in April can be regarded as seeing the Koreans through. When they know that no matter how good they play, as long as the main team is willing to play, they will be reduced to a spare tire abandoned by the head coach at any time, and these players are not willing to work hard for Choi Kang-hee.
And Cui Kangxi himself is in the middle of the season, and he also uses his constant sassy operation to make the locker room chickens fly and dogs jump.
Song Long and Ji Xiang, two players, before leaving the Taishan team, Cui Kangxi had long not allowed them to train with the first team.
The reason why Xiao Moto came back from the national team and did not represent the Taishan team in the recent past, and it was revealed that when he stopped for three stops, the so-called non-training without getting a new contract was purely fabricated, but before playing Guoan, Cui Kangxi had a conflict with him.
So now within the Taishan team, it is divided into part of the club's anger and inability to play well, and part of the head coach's psychological anger and reluctance to work hard, which leads to Cressan's desire to play well. In addition, Cui Kangxi's technical and tactical building ability is really poor, there was Fellaini last year, he can be like a fish in water; This year, Fellaini is gone, Zeka is seriously injured, Bi Jinhao's form has declined seriously, and Judson's season reimbursement has made the South Korean, who can only make long passes, really don't know how to play when there is no big center forward under him.
There are problems in almost all links, and in the eyes of most people, the most urgent thing for the Taishan team to solve is the problem of money.
Objectively speaking, Jinan Cultural Tourism, the major shareholder of the club, does not have money, and it can even be said that the supporting funds of Jinan Cultural Tourism have never been in place. Of course, this is not that Jinan Cultural Tourism does not want to come out, but that Jinan Cultural Tourism has no money. This club is not something they took the initiative to pick up, and whether they can quit or not, they themselves don't count. What's more, the general environment is now sluggish, there are too many places for local finances to spend, and football can only be ranked relatively low, which is why the share reform of the Taishan team has been called for a long time and has not progressed.
But from another point of view, the so-called lack of money of the Taishan team is only the most financially tight period in team history, and compared with the vast majority of teams in the Chinese Super League, they are still living very stable.
They can give Cui Kangxi's team, which is far higher than the first annual salary of the current Chinese Super League coaches of other peers.
Their transfer expenditure this year is one of the best among all teams in the Chinese Super League.
They can directly grab an international player like Gao Zhunyi in the bidding with some clubs.
Can you say that a club that buys, buys, buys, and spends money without stopping has no money?
It can be said that many of the problems faced by the current Taishan team are very complex, and Jinan Cultural Tourism is currently only standing in front of the responsible for carrying the blame, among these problems, the easiest to solve is to change the coach.
But can the Taishan team win Choi Kang-hee at this time? Apparently impossible!
Cui Kangxi himself will not give up this big contract, and Jinan Cultural Tourism does not have the extra budget to pay Cui Kangxi's termination fee. Coupled with the rumors of punishment that have been hanging over the heads of the Taishan team, the Taishan team has been lying flat without desire.