Rooney plus Fellaini for 150M surely now possible.
Oscar to Shanghai SIPG for £60 million
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Why are they paying so much for him ? He's a rubbish player.
Because they have much more money with them and the Chinese League is not stopping them
when you join chelsea, your value goes up significantly. When you join United your value decreases significantly. This is the way of life
Is it official yet?
Faaaaaaking hell.
Both Conte and Willian have confirmed that he's leaving. Don't know the exact figure, but he's definitely being sold.
Please buy Rooney!
Why are they paying so far in excess of market value, wages I understand they have to pay more to entice the player.
But transfer fee?
Makes no sense
But transfer fee?
Makes no sense
Not with the current roster and selections rules.
He is a Seleçao and played for a contender in EPL for some time. That seems only enough for Chinese to overpay.
I'd imagine it's because if they offered say £35m, it could entice another club to offer maybe £25-30m which would then give the player the power to demand a transfer to the latter club (see Alexis Sanchez turning down City for Barcelona despite a lower bid by the latter).
If they offer £52-60m (depending on which reports you read) no other club would even consider putting a bid in. Oscar then has a simple choice: China or the bench.
Confirmed.
Sky saying "fee in the region of £60 million".
This is a smile of a man who's just got much richer.
Why mate, what's holding it back?
Amazing that a player who could not get a game is sold for the highest sum ever for a Chelsea player.
£20m less than Ronaldo...
If only we had Ronaldo on this side of the decade! Easily £120m
If only we had Ronaldo on this side of the decade! Easily £120m
Madness.
Best thing Vilas-Boas has done for Chelsea
Nope, it would have cost around the same, probably slightly more. Pogba though, would have earned a lot more than he is doing here.
Nah, China is not in Europe.
Insane. Anywhere else in Europe, it would be £15m max.
If Chelsea fell in a pile of horse shit, they'd come up smelling of roses.
The sun shines on the righteous.
Avb was pretty fond of Mata as well. It would make sense he would want him. For a hefty fee I wouldn't mind, say 100 million.
China will set the standard. Getting a player in his prime , shows they are serious of competing with the big names in the west.
Chelsea always sell for huge amounts of money whilst we sell at a loss
Chelsea are either dodgy as feck or lucky as feck. I hope they win the league if we don't, but the whole club irritates me.
It might help that he has played as Brazil's no. 10.
Have to. Transfer fees and the loan army helps to bridge revenue gaps.
How the feck do they do it?!
Some people are just lucky in life. Average 25 year-old footballer. Most likely going nowhere meaningful in his career and warming the bench. Best-case scenario for his career from that point might be going to Juve and winning Serie A a couple of years in a row on lower wages. It's hardly an exhilarating prospect given what he has already won and already been paid.
Out of nowhere he gets the opportunity to make about $100 million in 3 years, in a fantastic city, experiencing a completely new culture and still playing the sport he loves.
And when those 3 years are done, he'll only be 28. He could probably then decide to either continue making that kind of money for the rest of his career, or then decide that he's got enough money and take a pay-cut and go somewhere else to play football. Back to lesser teams in Europe, back to Brazil, Australia, MLS, Russia, the Gulf.
I can only hope that his lawyers are good enough to make sure the Chinese enforce the contract if there are any hitches. Other than that, he's golden. Life transformed.
Out of nowhere he gets the opportunity to make about $100 million in 3 years, in a fantastic city, experiencing a completely new culture and still playing the sport he loves.
And when those 3 years are done, he'll only be 28. He could probably then decide to either continue making that kind of money for the rest of his career, or then decide that he's got enough money and take a pay-cut and go somewhere else to play football. Back to lesser teams in Europe, back to Brazil, Australia, MLS, Russia, the Gulf.
I can only hope that his lawyers are good enough to make sure the Chinese enforce the contract if there are any hitches. Other than that, he's golden. Life transformed.
Dude is still only 25 and is gonna waste his prime years in China.
IIRC, they can only use a limited amount of foreign players per games.
Edit: 4 foreign players.
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Chelsea really must have a top rate negotiating team, they seem to be able to offload fringe players for insane amounts of money.
Question marks over Oscars ambition though, guess he likes money more than competition.
Question marks over Oscars ambition though, guess he likes money more than competition.
incredible waste of a career, frankly.
I would like that money more than ambition too to be fair.
This is the way I see it, too. Many people are acting like he's choosing to go to a miserable place like the Russian league. He gets to go to a beautiful, world class city, make a boat load of cash, and has people he knows there.
He'll have plenty of time for a move elsewhere if he gets sick of China.