With everyone expecting Leicester to give up at the end, Man city failing to live to expectation and arsenal with their inconsistency and spurs with their silent bid which doesn't look serious for title for now.. this could go to last 2-3 rounds with at least 3 in chance for it.. Also 5th place will be interesting after united being closely followed by westham, Southampton, everton and liverpool
Sun is not the only source...wayne rooney has been linked since December(highly unlikely)... players like Payet, Loic remy, Oscar , Jagielka , Mile Jedinak, Dani Alves are some fresh names that are coming up. Even fox sports reporting all this. The way thngs are going in China, nothing seems impossible now.
Love this article... he said sarcastically. First off, it's MLS, not MSL. Secondly, "outsmarting"? Ya, hard to make an argument for ISL in its current format but long term, who knows, depends on how a longer league looks.
Outsmarting MLS though? How? By overspending on Jackson Martinez? I would rather MLS clubs continue to go for guys like Sebastian Giovinco, internationals for teams like Italy but who hit a snag in their career at a club like Juventus. Not breaking the bank on him as he was free and not breaking the bank on his salary which is $7,000,000 a year, well worth it. Or even David Villa, a guy who was a regular with Atletico Madrid before coming to New York and again, on a fee that is nothing compared to China's overspending.
Meanwhile, they're development is all talk so far. It is very promising but I want to see it come to fruition. MLS has already been in the developing game and has sent guys to Europe for a long time, recently sending Chelsea Matt Miazga from the Red Bulls.
Not bad for a country where soccer is still not fully engrained into the sporting culture at all, compared to a country which honestly just has to compete with basketball, and even then, not that much of a challenge.
China needs to either host World Cup Football (which I do not see in some decades now) or have a decent world cup playing team with home grown stars. None of that is happening in near future. Otherwise China is still very much behind in Football. Success of Yao Ming popularised Basketball there. Success of Li na popularised Tennis there. Otherwise China like other Communist countries gave huge emphasis on Olympic Champions and Olympic Sports. This spending in Chinese Super League is more due to current Government economic policy shift due to economic constraints to boost Domestic spending instead of Foreign investment.
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Also 5th place will be interesting after united being closely followed by westham, Southampton, everton and liverpool
CHINA'S TOP PREM TARGETS
THE Chinese Super League have set their sights set on the following players in the Premier League.WAYNE ROONEY (Man Utd)OSCAR (Chelsea)PHIL JAGIELKA (Everton)JOHN TERRY (Chelsea)RADEMEL FALCAO (Chelsea)DIMITRI PAYET (West Ham)http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/6923430/Phil-Jagielkas-joins-big-name-hitlist-for-mega-rich-Chinese-Super-League.html
http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/premier-league/rumour-mill/chinese-rumour-mill-barcelonas-dani-alves-and-arda-turan-west-hams-payet-and-jelavic-crystal-palaces-mile-jedinak/news-story/d02a0b2b68dcc6a9e52aaf6e7f1e56e7
http://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/1911935/all-aboard-gravy-train-10-english-premier-league-stars-who-could-be
Love this article... he said sarcastically. First off, it's MLS, not MSL. Secondly, "outsmarting"? Ya, hard to make an argument for ISL in its current format but long term, who knows, depends on how a longer league looks.
Outsmarting MLS though? How? By overspending on Jackson Martinez? I would rather MLS clubs continue to go for guys like Sebastian Giovinco, internationals for teams like Italy but who hit a snag in their career at a club like Juventus. Not breaking the bank on him as he was free and not breaking the bank on his salary which is $7,000,000 a year, well worth it. Or even David Villa, a guy who was a regular with Atletico Madrid before coming to New York and again, on a fee that is nothing compared to China's overspending.
Meanwhile, they're development is all talk so far. It is very promising but I want to see it come to fruition. MLS has already been in the developing game and has sent guys to Europe for a long time, recently sending Chelsea Matt Miazga from the Red Bulls.
Not bad for a country where soccer is still not fully engrained into the sporting culture at all, compared to a country which honestly just has to compete with basketball, and even then, not that much of a challenge.
Success of Yao Ming popularised Basketball there. Success of Li na popularised Tennis there. Otherwise China like other Communist countries gave huge emphasis on Olympic Champions and Olympic Sports.
This spending in Chinese Super League is more due to current Government economic policy shift due to economic constraints to boost Domestic spending instead of Foreign investment.