Meizhou Hakka: Waiting for the Super League qualification

Reporter Wang Wei reports In the list of the first batch of clubs to complete debt settlement in the 2025 season of the professional league announced by the Chinese Football Association, Meizhou Hakka, which has just been relegated from the Chinese Super League, is not among them. However, Meizhou Hakka has recently completed the salary dispute with former coach Pablo, and the club's ban on FIFA has been lifted, and it will be a high probability event to appear in the second batch of public lists. Meizhou Hakka is still waiting for the Football Association to make a replacement decision before they can make a plan to build and recruit the team for the new season.

According to the reporter's understanding, after failing to appear in the first list, Meizhou Hakka Club quickly resolved the dispute with Pablo, and the FIFA ban was lifted. At present, Meizhou Hakka's players have completed the signing, which means that Meizhou Hakka has no problem on the list of clubs that have completed debt settlement in the second batch.However, because it is not yet certain whether to play in the Chinese Super League or the Chinese League next season, Meizhou Hakka is not clear what standards the team will build according to in the new season, so the team has not yet determined the time for training. At the moment, the club and the players are in a hurry.

Since Meizhou Hakka is relegated to the penultimate place in the 2024 Chinese Super League, they are ranked first in the supplementary Chinese Super League, according to the time when the 2025 Chinese Super League will start on February 22, once the Chinese Super League is supplemented, the time left for the team's reinforcements and winter training will be very tight. According to the arrangement of Meizhou Hakka in previous years, it generally takes 7 weeks for winter training, and if it is confirmed around January 10 next year whether to supplement the Chinese Super League, there will be very little time left for domestic players and foreign aid to run in.

In addition, because the investors of Meizhou Hakka Club are mainly engaged in the real estate industry, after the industry has encountered a trough, it has become very difficult for investors to invest in football. In fact, no matter whether Meizhou Hakka plays in the Chinese Super League or the Chinese League, the next step will inevitably involve the work of finding sponsors and supporting partners, which will take time. Therefore, the later the Chinese Football Association determines the access and replacement situation, the more unfavorable it will be for the preparation of Meizhou Hakka for the new season.

It is precisely because of the uncertain future that Meizhou Hakka also needs to wait in terms of coach selection for the new season.It is understood that Milan, who took over the team's position in the middle of the league this year, signed a contract for half a season, and his contract is about to expire, and whether Meizhou Hakka will continue to hire Milan is also related to whether the team can replace the Chinese Super League, and it was recently reported that in the 2024 season, Xie Yuxin, a football celebrity who served as the head coach of the Ganzhou Lion team, will be the general manager of Meizhou Hakka Football Club, which Xie Yuxin denied, and he said that he has not received such information at present.It is understood that from December 3 to 5, Zhang Jiasheng, deputy director of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, led a team to Meizhou to carry out special research on football work, and Xie Yuxin, as the person in charge of Xingning Yuxin Football Club, made a speech. As a native of Meizhou, Xie Yuxin has been the head coach of a professional football team in recent years, and is indeed familiar with the management of professional football clubs and the coaching of professional teams.

Meizhou Hakka is currently making two preparations, while waiting, while planning to train as soon as possible. In the new season, the team will be based on the original team plus the players selected from the Meizhou Hakka U21 team to increase young fresh blood.