The boom in Chinese football

And btw,you guys should do more research on the Chinese Super league.
They are only allowed to buy 5 foreign players for each team and allowed to field only 4 foreigners in the starting XI.
So its not like they're just focusing on stacking up as many foreign players they can.

Jiansung signed Alex Teixeira for 50 millions euros, and he is set to be earning 10 millions euros net per year, goddamn. pool

Those chinese teams are really going to inflate the market if they keep spending like this .
At a certain point , even world class players in their prime will start considering  high 8 figure contracts in china over the lure of the champions league and " big league " football .

they'll either overpay for over the hill players like yaya. Or overpay for lesser known talent like teixiera, who may have turned into a stud, in the right situation, but took longer than expected to make the next step.

Someone like Oscar, whos a star, in his prime, would never suffocate his career by going to china, regardless of the salary. which is why I'm sure Chelsea "reportedly" turned down 75 mil for him.

Maybe its the culture shock. because in theory, its waay more money for you, plus a large enough market to make even more. yet players with reputation usually bail a season or two in.

MLS needs to get its act together and start some real reforms on how we allocate salary and pay players or were going to fall behind and lose a lot of targets to this league

i think it will be like basketball in china. they'll attract players from europe, south america, africa (mls got north america i think); but these will probably be players who have played in europe and either considered 'has-beens' or guys who just haven't made it. and the money's there for these guys in china, just look at stephon marbury, he's a big deal over there; a huge icon, but i don't think there's an nba team that wants him.

its may be a "boom" in chinese football, but not so globally; until these clubs can compete with euro clubs for top players in their prime, so until we see say, madrid trying to sign a top talent, and the talent says no he's going to one of the chinese clubs, i don't see it affecting european football so much....even the term "boom" is a bit of a stretch, i mean, it may just be like the mls, which seems to attract some audiences in the states, but a lot of footy lovers are just 'meh' about it

They have already illustrated why they are going to be a better league than MLS going forward.
It's a boom in Chinese football because this kind of spending is unprecedented in their history almost on par with Europe's top clubs.
It's ultimately being aimed at improving the quality of Chinese football and groom home-grown talents in the process.
The government has also pledged to build plenty of football academies and schools in an aim to improve grassroots football.

The last time they had this kind of dedicated plan was like some 10-15 yrs in an aim to become a top nation as far as Olympics is concerned and guess what happened.

We should not underestimate China's potential.The results will be realized in the long run.

Fenerbahce winger Nani is uninterested in a move to the Chinese Super League because he wants to win honours with the Turkish club.

Last week, Fenerbahce chairman Aziz Yildirim claimed he rejected an offer of €20million from an unnamed Chinese team for the former Manchester United man.

A host of high-profile names, including Jackson Martinez, Ramires and Fredy Guarin recently made switches to the rapidly expanding league, which has seen its transfer record broken three times in a little over a week.

Nani, who joined Fener from United during the close-season and has eight goals in 29 appearances this term, had no desire to join their number

"Both for our club and even for me, this was a huge bid in economic terms," the 29-year-old Portugal international told Fenerbahce's official website.

"But I look at this offer - the first goal is not to win money. I want to achieve my goals in football.

Milan reject 12 million euro offer of Luiz Adriano from Beijing.

L'Equipe report PSG's Ezequiel Lavezzi has accepted an offer from Shanghai Shenua. Pocho will earn €10m per year. Fee between €5-10m.

WOWZER: Some chinese team is offering 100M for Arda Turan.

Que?

Yeah sure

Dani Alves has also been the subject of an offer from an unnamed club which will earn the Brazilian full-back 12 million per year.

I popped in a West Ham forum to see what they make of Payet's apparent wage increase demands and contract negotiations and they had a rumour a Chinese club was ready to pay £38m for Payet.

The Chinese window closes somewhere in the end of February, we'll see if they have any more big money moves up their sleeves.

It unsettles me to think we now live in a world where Lavezzi earns more than Messi

Yea? my local kebab shop dealer earns more than an average junior doctor in UK. You don't see me complaining

Any kebab store within tom's vicinity will do that though

agreed

BarrileteCosmico wrote:It unsettles me to think we now live in a world where Lavezzi earns more than Messi

Lavezzi earns 13 mill euro .. How is that even close to Messi's ?

Hmm the headlines I read were "Lavezzi now highest earning player in the world"

Yeah seen those headlines too. 5 players from the Chinese leauge are in the top 10 best paid as well apparently.

will have consequences for big teams IMO

elite players at big clubs will be saying well these scrubs are earning this much then we deserve to be paid accordingly

barca are already struggling to accommodate MSN's wage demands

Ezequiel Lavezzi joins Hebei Fortune.

He'll be paid £23.5m after tax in two years.

5th highest paid footballer

I thought big name players would only play for clubs in the champions lge.