The Asian Football Thread

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I think Speed (either him or Harper) got his facts wrong. According to SBS, the Chinese FA are looking to put a cap at around $123m per club. Pretty sure the figure that Speed referred to was the maximum foreign player cap at $3m Euro per foreign player (SBS have quoted $4.85 which would be in AUD). That’s a lot more sensible, and will still allow the CSL clubs to be very competitive in the ACL. It’s still good news for us though as we might have more of a chance at enticing players in that price bracket to come to Australia with the good ol’ classic “lifestyle” argument.

China learning from A-League salary cap in a bid to reduce costs (sbs.com.au)

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Not at all surprising, he also stated that Shanghai Greenland Shenhua would be unaffected by the move to remove corporate backers from team names.

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Happy for China to do this, especially if it means we keep an Adrian type in the future.

We’re seeing the Spanish come here en masse this off season because of Corona, hopefully people will look here more if China can’t pay out as much.

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And to think one of the best Spaniards to have played here was called Corona!

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He used to run through all defences etc

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Kawasaki Frontale continue their Sydney FC style domination of J.League, winning the league handily again.

Champions now in 2017, 2018 and 2020, although they had that blip year last year they were still Levain Cup winners in 2019.

Yokohama F. Marinos well off the pace, were never in the hunt for a second J.League this season. They’re currently in 9th with one game left to play. There’s a reasonable chance they could finish outside the top 10.

No relegation in J.League this season means that it will be a 20 team league next year, Tokushima Vortis and Avispa Fukuoka are in the top 2 position.

Blaublitz Akita have finally earned promotion from J3, winning the league easily with a ton of games to go.

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Are they going to keep J1 as 20 teams from here on then, using next season as a try out? Or is this a one off thing cause of covid?

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It will drop back to 18 after the one season.

At the end of 2021 season, 2 clubs will come up and 4 will drop down, this is for both J1 and J2.

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Yokohama out of the ACL. Lost to an under strength Suwon 3-2

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I think it’s also clear that Nieuwenhof broke Hulk, and Sydney in turn broke SIPG, they got done 2-0 by Iniesta and Vissel Kobe so both teams out of our group are gone already.

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And we all said we had the strongest group?

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On paper, we did, absolutely. Insert tinpot comp / confederation rant here.

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Ulsan have carried on since slicing up MV. They’ve beaten Beijing Guoan 2-0 and now Iniesta’s Vissel Kobe 2-1 in extra time to make the final against Persepolis on Saturday.

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Satisfying game this afternoon for Yokohama FC, winning the derby against F. Marinos 3-1.

Kawasaki Frontale finish the season 18 points clear at the top. Gamba Osaka in second and Nagoya Grampus finish in third.

F. Marinos have to settle for 9th place.

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So will Ange be there next season?

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Yeah i cant see them giving him the boot. He had a shocker in his first year, narrowly avoiding relegation, so i think they’ll stick with him.

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Kawasaki Frontale win the (much shortened) 2020 Emperor’s Cup, their first ever appearance in an Emperor’s Cup final, beating 5 time winners Gamba Osaka 1-0.

The drastically reorganised and abbreviated format is not the celebration of the tournament that everyone would have hoped for the 100th edition, but it can’t be helped, well done to the powerhouse of this era of Japanese football, Frontale.

J.League winners 2017, 2018, 2020. Levain Cup winners 2019. Emperor’s Cup winners 2020.

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Could this be the beginning of the end of the CSL? Champions Jiangsu FC have ceased operations and Tianjin Teda are expected to follow suit in the coming days.

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Ran out of vision.

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Needed to diversify with some petrol stations.