Jack Ma Yun, executive chairman of Alibaba Group, said Thursday that the 1.2 billion yuan ($192 million) bid for a 50 percent stake in China's top soccer club Guangzhou Evergrande was to bring more joy not only to the team's fans but to all Chinese soccer fans.

Maybe the head of the ­e-commerce giant really does not know much about ­soccer as he revealed at the news ­conference. Co-owning the high-profile club could impede the real progress of other ­Chinese Super League (CSL) clubs.

Look at what the Guangzhou-­based club did in the transfer window after their sensational 2013 season: They brought Zheng Long from Qingdao ­Jonoon for 2.3 million yuan, Rene Junior from Brazil's Tombense for 1 million euros ($1.35 million) and Italy international Alessandro Diamanti from Italy's Bologna for 6.9 million euros.

They even made a 50 million yuan bid for ­Dalian Aerbin's talented forward Yu Dabao, but were turned down by the 26-year-old Aerbin ­captain.

Such lavish moves have pushed other big CSL clubs, like Beijing Guoan and Shandong Luneng, to splash out money to strengthen their squads, in a bid to challenge the reigning champions, which has rewarded Chinese soccer fans with more entertaining CSL games.

As Xu Jiayin, boss of ­Evergrande, promised a competitive all-Chinese team, ­Evergrande's potential targets are from other CSL clubs, as they wait for their youth system to become more productive.

Soccer oligarchy hurts. Borussia Dortmund of ­Germany know how it feels.

Their promising attacking trio, Marco Reus, ­Robert ­Lewandowski and Mario ­Goetze, who had helped the club to reach the European ­Champions League final against ­Bayern ­Munich in the 2012-13 season, were split thanks to ­Bayern ­Munich poaching Goetze.

Dortmund then fell further behind runaway Bayern this season in the Bundesliga and now Lewandowski is leaving for the Bavarians.

Bayern's transfer policy has left the German top flight a one-horse race and boring. Chinese fans don't want similar things to happen in the CSL.

Song Weiping, chairman of Hangzhou Greentown, had ­offered Ma a share in the Hangzhou club, which has a quality youth training system and ­plenty of potential stars in their first team. Ma rejected it and turned to Evergrande, aiming to help Evergrande grab more Asian Champions League titles.

Ma's snub may upset Greentown fans, but it should upset all fans of Chinese soccer, as what Ma missed is a chance to bringing real progress to the Chinese game.