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Let's face it. With this kind of money thrown around, soon everyone will be going to China, not just those at the end of their career like Tevez or Oscar.

Chinese League to have all the best players in 10 years.

Not sure how many teams Chinese Super League has but they're going to implement 3 + 1 rule as far as foreign players are concerned. The '1' refers to a foreign player within Asia.
So yeah, the potential is huge. They're probably going to mostly try to target the most established players from Europe. It's the next phase in their development.

Di Maria is next.

I think they'll lose interest very fast and stop investing so much money. Europe will always remain the best destination for the players. PSG has been a household name in the past now they are strong and full of money and yet can't attract players like Bayern, RM, Barca etc can.

IT will be the same people will go there to retire just like they do in the MLS

Yeah I remember reading an article a couple years back that Asia will dominate the market with their financial capabilities and it seems to be actually happening, step by step...

Already attracting young players like Oscar etc.

DeviAngel wrote:I think they'll lose interest very fast and stop investing so much money. Europe will always remain the best destination for the players. PSG has been a household name in the past now they are strong and full of money and yet can't attract players like Bayern, RM, Barca etc can.

IT will be the same people will go there to retire just like they do in the MLS

The reasons for losing interest would merely be for financial reasons and it's hard to say they'll lose interest when you have a market of 1.3 billion people taking China alone and ignoring other international markets. Some of these investments are government sponsored, not just by private entities. It's a dedicated programme aimed at developing the sport to another level and can't be compared to MLS or Qatar at all. It's already one step above it.

It will take a long time before anyone over here takes the Chinese league seriously as a top league. No one from top footballing countries is growing up dreaming to play in China. It will be decades of this before people from the west start watching games. People already don't watch a lot of south american football (except locals of course) and that's full of talent and history.

Any amount of Oscars can go there and it will still take a long time before the idea grows on people.

They're not just taking our best players, they're also taking Western football's greatest minds for coaches like Magath, AVB, Eriksson, Scolari, Fabio Cannavaro, Ciro Ferrara ffs

rincon wrote:It will take a long time before anyone over here takes the Chinese league seriously as a top league. No one from top footballing countries is growing up dreaming to play in China. It will be decades of this before people from the west start watching games. People already don't watch a lot of south american football (except locals of course) and that's full of talent and history.

Any amount of Oscars can go there and it will still take a long time before the idea grows on people.

If the Chinese themselves take it seriously, then that alone is a step in the right direction. It doesn't need viewers from Venezuela or Colombia or some random European country for it be certified as a 'serious league' with all due respect. As long as the money is good, players would definitely give it a thought.

And the idea of a World Super League has already been touted and I won't be surprised we something like that in 5-10 years which would be an extra incentive to go play in China.

You can brush it off now but the potential is clearly there.

The potential is there, I said that, it will just take a very long time. And it absolutely needs viewers from europe, south america and africa, because that is were the best football comes out of. The next Messi and Ronaldo will 100% want to play in Barca, Madrid, etc. not in Shanghai. It takes years for changes in the sports culture to be reflected. China will need to improve its coaching and infrastructure at all levels to make it sustainable and grow good players, which takes a long time.

Chinese will never be able to challenge the cream of the crop in Europe, that much is clear, despite all their riches.

But if you gotta predict the landscape of football in say a decade, you have the Top 5 leagues of Europe and then you have the Chinese league which would've more star power by then.

This argument is not about the Chinese challenging Madrid and Barca. It's about the Chinese having a fairly competitive league which would've aided the growth of Chinese players and thereby improved their national football team's standing.

They are on the same level as Qatar and MLS tho. They are just buying the leftovers of Western football regardless of their recent football results and present ability because they were internationally recognized once in their career, and vastly overpaying for it. They spent 100M on Oscar and Ramires who were literally reserves of our bench players at the moment they were sold, they have Graziano *bleep* Pellè on a 20M wage. They have Magath, AVB, Eriksson, Scolari, Fabio Cannavaro, Ciro Ferrara as their coaches.

Until they replace their current inept football advisors with guys like Marotta/Monchi/Sammer/etc, or get coveted and truly elite players/coaches, or young coaches and players that are extremely good and promising but not internationally recognized yet to truly improve the league and not just throw names in there, I won't see them as anything but a new Qatar with the same obtuse squad assemblement and long term planning that won't make any impact in world football.

RealGunner wrote:Shanghai Shenhua announce signing of Carlos Tevez on £615,000 per week

and he was so young

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DeviAngel wrote:I think they'll lose interest very fast and stop investing so much money. Europe will always remain the best destination for the players. PSG has been a household name in the past now they are strong and full of money and yet can't attract players like Bayern, RM, Barca etc can.

IT will be the same people will go there to retire just like they do in the MLS

The reasons for losing interest would merely be for financial reasons and it's hard to say they'll lose interest when you have a market of 1.3 billion people taking China alone and ignoring other international markets. Some of these investments are government sponsored, not just by private entities. It's a dedicated programme aimed at developing the sport to another level and can't be compared to MLS or Qatar at all. It's already one step above it.

I don't think financial reason but as time goes it will lose that WOW effect. They are signing finished players (so far) and that's why I think it will be something like the MLS (except Giovinco).

Katy Perry wrote:They are on the same level as Qatar and MLS tho. They are just buying the leftovers of Western football regardless of their recent football results and present ability because they were internationally recognized once in their career, and vastly overpaying for it. They spent 100M on Oscar and Ramires who were literally reserves of our bench players at the moment they were sold, they have Graziano *bleep* Pellè on a 20M wage. They have Magath, AVB, Eriksson, Scolari, Fabio Cannavaro, Ciro Ferrara as their coaches.

Until they replace their current inept football advisors with guys like Marotta/Monchi/Sammer/etc, or get coveted and truly elite players/coaches, or young coaches and players that are extremely good and promising but not internationally recognized yet to truly improve the league and not just throw names in there, I won't see them as anything but a new Qatar with the same obtuse squad assemblement and long term planning that won't make any impact in world football.

With the money present I don't see why China wouldnt be able to, in this century, challenge European super power clubs The next step is marketing. Kids in South America and Africa grow up wanting to play for the Madrid and Barcelonas because they are marketed everywhere. A kid growing up in Cameroon doesnt know Madrid from Shanghai. You have to market the places, not only the club. Have a kid think "I'd love to live in Shanghai and make a life for my family" make it prestigious.

Thye also need to have scouts out taking advantage of the situation. Kids in Argentina love tevez, then tevez should promoting academies in Argentina for Chinese scouts. Same with Paulinho and Oscar for Brazil since they are national team players. If I were a young footballer right now my first destination would be China. Thats the future.

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These same statements were made when the USA (MLS and before that whatever the USA predecessor was) started signing Pele, Beckambauer, Beckham, etc) and that was at least 15 years ago. And what is that league now?

It is a second rate leaque (successful nonnetheless) that offers good pre retirement money to aging stars. Never will these leagues be a threat to la liga, serie A, EPL, Bungleliga.

futbol_bill wrote:These same statements were made when the USA (MLS and before that whatever the USA predecessor was) started signing Pele, Beckambauer, Beckham, etc) and that was at least 15 years ago. And what is that league now?

It is a second rate leaque (successful nonnetheless) that offers good pre retirement money to aging stars. Never will these leagues be a threat to la liga, serie A, EPL, Bungleliga.

The NASL was definitely on its way to being a top league. Other pro leagues in America, namely the NFL, colluded together to make sure it didnt succeed though. There are no obstacles like that in China.

Hapless_Hans wrote:Let's face it. With this kind of money thrown around, soon everyone will be going to China, not just those at the end of their career like Tevez or Oscar.

Chinese League to have all the best players in 10 years.

I disagree, there is a diminishing return to money. Is there really that much stuff you can do with 15 mil that you can't do with 10? Messi could've gone to PSG and make more there but why would he make the switch to a lower league?

If the chinese league were in the CL I'd say maybe, but noway without it. Top players want to compete for top titles, they want a legacy. Competing in a mickey mouse cup doesn't appeal to them.

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BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:Let's face it. With this kind of money thrown around, soon everyone will be going to China, not just those at the end of their career like Tevez or Oscar.

Chinese League to have all the best players in 10 years.

I disagree, there is a diminishing return to money. Is there really that much stuff you can do with 15 mil that you can't do with 10? Messi could've gone to PSG and make more there but why would he make the switch to a lower league?

If the chinese league were in the CL I'd say maybe, but noway without it. Top players want to compete for top titles, they want a legacy. Competing in a mickey mouse cup doesn't appeal to them.

There is nothing stopping Asia from being there, The viewership they can accumulate from China alone is enough to destroy PL club financially, Getting the good players into their leagues will only increase the market in more Asian countries and the world.

People switch because its not always about the competitiveness. You'd take a 10 time more paying job with 100 times the perks for the same work in an easier environment easily.

Oscar from being a nobody in Chelsea Football Club is going to be a VVIP in the most populous and one of the largest countries in the world. That's a pinnacle in his career and his family. They are going to be *bleep* huge rather being irrelevant in the current country or even Brazil. He's probably going to multiply his fan following into 10 times as well now.

The whole shit is artificial though. Government is funding these clubs knowing full well that they arent going to bring back these amounts. How long can they keep on giving money to these clubs ? The moment China hit the ceiling they will just sell off their players like Malaga CF. China is just marketing its strength, not really looking at it from a business perspective like the Europe does.

But this is the only way of them putting their foot down in the global world. Plus its a win-win situation for players.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:Let's face it. With this kind of money thrown around, soon everyone will be going to China, not just those at the end of their career like Tevez or Oscar.

Chinese League to have all the best players in 10 years.

I disagree, there is a diminishing return to money. Is there really that much stuff you can do with 15 mil that you can't do with 10? Messi could've gone to PSG and make more there but why would he make the switch to a lower league?

If the chinese league were in the CL I'd say maybe, but noway without it. Top players want to compete for top titles, they want a legacy. Competing in a mickey mouse cup doesn't appeal to them.

An idea of a World Super League has already been floated around as I've mentioned which would obviously involve Chinese teams. Wouldn't that be an incentive to go and play there ? Like it or not , in the next decade or so I could see Shanghai Vs Madrid or Guangzhou Evergrande Vs Barca featured pretty prominently.
As I said , first they need the Chinese population to treat it as a serious product , then comes the international marketing.

An idea being floated around and actually being in operation are very different.

There was talk of a European Super League to usurp the Champions League for like a decade and yet still nothing.

Even if a World Super League was agreed upon today you wouldn't see it actually happen for at least 5 - 10 years. A World Super League if it does happen is years off, possibly even decades off.

The Chinese Super League as a whole would have to get substantially better and keep improving for whatever period until said Super League.

Because at the end of the day no one wants to see 5 superstars and 6 just about professional level footballers fused together in an XI.

Guangzou Evergrande, Shanghai Shenhua, Shanghai SIPG all have max 5 decent players not even world stars and the rest are just random nobodies.

You would need at least 5 teams full of top stars to start making some international progress. The likes of Elkeson, Ricardo Goulart, Paulinho, Pelle, Jackson Martinez, Diego Tardelli are not moving any mountains any time soon.

With the money that have they are bound to attract some top players but to really make a dent they would need a stream of top, in their prime stars and a real marketing drive on the country and its football to start changing minds.

Like people have said before you're gonna need young future stars to want to dream of playing in China otherwise it's just another MLS/Qatar.