Reissue this year's salary arrears + solve the most difficult international lawsuits, Wuhan Three Towns actively helped themselves

Reporter Lu Mi reports On December 2, the Chinese Football Association announced on its official website the list of the first batch of clubs to complete debt settlement in the 2025 season of the professional league, and Wuhan Three Towns was not among them, which also made the outside world have more speculation. However, this newspaper reported that the three towns did not owe much wages to the players, and on December 15, the players received two months' back wages, and the signing problem was basically resolved. In addition, the club has only five pending FIFA lawsuits, and after Three Towns won the U21 league championship and successfully rushed to the second division, the club's desire to survive is even stronger.

It is already mid-December, and there is not much time left for the clubs that have not completed the debt settlement to solve the problem, and later this month, it will be necessary to complete the admission materials and enter the final review stage. On the 13th, the Chinese Football Association held a special press briefing for the 2024 professional league, and vice chairman Yang Xu said that it would further tighten the league access standards, require greater efforts to clean up arrears of wages and arrears, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of players, clubs and youth training institutions. In this context, there is no doubt that the Football Association will strictly control this year's access.

Three Towns is one of the clubs that currently has access problems, and it has not entered the first batch of arrears announced by the Football Association at the beginning of the month, mainly because the club still has unsettled wages this year, and some players have not signed the salary confirmation form. The Three Towns Club actively communicated with the players and promised to make up this year's salary arrears by the 15th of this month. On the 15th, the players received two months' back wages, and the remaining arrears for the 2023 season will be gradually cashed out from next month. Therefore, later this month, the Three Towns Club submitted complete access materials, and there should be no problem.

In addition to the gradual settlement of domestic players' debts, as many as 11 international lawsuits have also plagued the three towns, the information on December 13 shows that the three towns have resolved 2, a day later, 4 more, and there are still 5 left. In two days, the club resolved several of the most difficult international lawsuits, demonstrating the club's determination to solve the problem and pass the access.

According to sources, the Three Towns Club has received support from relevant departments in Wuhan City for its future survival. In this year's U21 League, the Three Towns U21 team won the championship under extremely difficult circumstances and qualified for next season's China B League, and Wuhan has another professional team. In this way, the desire of the relevant departments in Wuhan to solve the problem of the survival of the Three Towns Club is even stronger. Earlier this month, the Wuhan municipal government held discussions that it would try to keep the Three Towns Club.

Since last year, the daily operating funds of the Three Towns Club have basically relied on the financial support of the Wuhan Sports Bureau, and the club hopes to transfer equity and carry out share reform, but the situation is not optimistic. Now, there is not much time left for the club to continue to seek equity transfer, and next year, the club is likely to rely on the financial support of the government and the Sports Bureau, and the local football association will appoint a special person to enter the club to supervise the operation.

The issue of access and survival for the Three Towns is likely to be resolved this month, and the club has begun to negotiate contract extensions with players whose contracts have expired in preparation for the new league season.