The Sun's front-page headline—Setting up a youth academy group in China? TY's ambitions emerge, can he single-handedly change Chinese football's predicament?
"Although TY owns a massive company like Bubble Bond, even if he sacrificed PPBond's entire market value of 7 billion, he might not be able to move even 10% of China's entire football industry."
"History has already proven that the path of money-driven football does not work in China."
The Sun's commentators had been remarkably patient. Judging by what they published, these guys had specifically researched the history of Chinese football before writing their commentary.
The money-driven football boom that began more than ten years ago had once given Chinese football a period of superficial prosperity.
But China seemed to have fallen into a bizarre vortex: when the Chinese Super League was strong ten years ago, the national team was weak. Now that the national team was strong, the Chinese Super League had become incredibly weak.
The football ecosystem was simply too chaotic, enough to leave even The Sun's top experts completely confused.
As everyone knew, the messier something was, the harder it was to handle. That was also why The Sun did not think highly of Tang Ye.
Moreover, because the league and the Football Association could not be directly separated, Tang Ye's first plan was to establish a youth academy group.
The starting point was good, but a youth academy group... put bluntly, it was something meant to lose money. Even if they really managed to establish one in China, this so-called "China Football Youth Academy Group" would need at least eight to ten years before it could turn a profit. During that period, the company would keep losing money, and the losses might only grow larger.
As soon as news of the youth academy group was