the right footed denilson
New member
That's fun, isn't it?
Chinese side 'make £127m Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang bid'
- Thread starter the right footed denilson
- Start date
Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
Machiavelli
Well-known member
coagulantwolf
New member
- Jun 21, 2012
- 716
I really don't get why people are surprised when these players go to China or even care 
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 74,164
I'm just constantly gobsmacked as to how China semed to go overnight from being severe Communist state to pissing money up the wall in all and every direction
Can't believe he slipped through our net.
Paul Winstanley out.
Paul Winstanley out.
spring hall convert
Well-known member
Can't wait for the cries of outrage about this from people that were perfectly happy all the time it was the Premier League overpaying foreign mercenaries.
You either think football jumped the shark long ago or you're still on board. I can't really see how the emergence of the Chinese Super League as a financial superpower is a massive surprise. I'm firmly in the 'football is ridiculous' camp but am also pretty interested in how this plays out.
You either think football jumped the shark long ago or you're still on board. I can't really see how the emergence of the Chinese Super League as a financial superpower is a massive surprise. I'm firmly in the 'football is ridiculous' camp but am also pretty interested in how this plays out.
Economic reforms started in the late 70s.
MattBackHome
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 12,002
Precisely. I repeat my call for the Invite-Only World Globo-Hyper League to be set up and leave normal football to the rest of us.
the right footed denilson
New member
- Thread starter
- #10
It's still a surprise, surely? They're forking out HUGE sums.
Ley's be honest, in terms of football they're third world.
80 St. Kitts and Nevis
82 China
83 Faroe Islands
Ley's be honest, in terms of football they're third world.
80 St. Kitts and Nevis
82 China
83 Faroe Islands
daveinprague
New member
****ing hell. Isnt that the combined cost of the Amex and training facility??
Spot on. Unsure how Sky will spin this, with this and the decline in subscription perhaps the bubble is, well, deflating...
They're clearly willing to take almost anyone over there: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/foot...-down-40million-move-to-chinese-super-league/
I just can't see how this works out well for them in any way.
Our model 'works' because the viewers are there across the Far East to justify humongous overseas tv rights deal but the thing with a Chinese Super League is no one outside China will want to watch it let alone pay through the nose for the privilege.
Our model 'works' because the viewers are there across the Far East to justify humongous overseas tv rights deal but the thing with a Chinese Super League is no one outside China will want to watch it let alone pay through the nose for the privilege.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 74,164
Guess in the end game, should TB ever decide to cash in, it'll be to to the Chinese, rather than the trash new money from Amerika, Russia or the Middle East.
Diego Napier
Well-known member
- Mar 27, 2010
- 4,416
He's not as famous as you are
You speak for yourself.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
So already better than Scotland ?
If you build it, they will come.
the right footed denilson
New member
- Thread starter
- #19
Nearly, they're 67th
Diego Napier
Well-known member
- Mar 27, 2010
- 4,416
Isn't the 1,382,323,332 Chinese population (nearly twice that of Europe) a fair size market?