£120m won't buy you that much!
Oscar to Shanghai SIPG for £60 million
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Shanghai is a pretty good choice to be a mega celebrity on that kind of weekly wage. He'll have a blast
Fair play to him. I'd take that deal as well for the amount of money they're paying. Considering that football careers are really short, I don't blame him for wanting the most money.
Money talks.
Think most people on here would take it if offered. 1/2 a mill a week ain't nothing to be sniffed at, especially if your only playing a bit part.
Think most people on here would take it if offered. 1/2 a mill a week ain't nothing to be sniffed at, especially if your only playing a bit part.
It's up to the players if they go or not, I see no problem with it. However, I never understood people saying that their career is short as an excuse. The average football in the PL probably earns 1 million a year including sponsorship deals. They have plenty of money when they finish.
This. Fair fecks.
With their lifestyle, their isn't plenty left when they finish. For a lot of them, there isn't even any money way before they finish.
And he doesn't need an excuse, he is a professional footballer, it's his job.
Go there for 2/3 years, earn £50 odd million and come back to Europe when he's 27 or 28.
It does seem like it's mainly Brazilians who head there for big money and we don't have any of them 
Mourinho overrated him immensely.
I dunno, if i were good enough to play for an ambitious club i'd take the more competetive option everytime, its not like they are on peanuts either.
This. I even work with an ex Nhl player and he's got nothing in his wallet. These guys are no smarter than a 12 year old. It's a great way of financing a project looking for money from players. They have no clue what they are doing and are desperate to make use of the money cus they're bored with life after sports.
Most of this Brazilian players don't even want to leave Brazil in the first place, they do it because of money. For them Europe or China is the same and they are right, most of the time they only care about their family, their friends and having fun. Football is just for the paycheck.
Fair enough, i cant speak to their mindset i can only say what i would do, under similar circumstances. I guess for a lot of working class brazillian kids football is the only way out from a poor background and future.
But you don't know what you would do, most of us could live several years with one week of Rooney's wage but Rooney probably won't live a month with it. People tend to translate their lifestyle with those wages but your lifestyle completely changes when you have that kind of money.
Over £100m from selling Ramires and Oscar. feck me.
Not quite. More like £85m.
Looks like Mikel will be off next month as well so yd have to imagine another midfielder is certainly coming in.
Can't blame him. Loads of money, great city to live in with such wealth. He'll be adored by millions of fans and he will play with players who are mostly below his level.
A few thoughts:
- Chelsea either has a book of dirt for every moneyed team in the world or their negotiators must be used to dealing with terrorists and kidnappers. It's good enough to make a profit on 50% of their sales, but I think they're cashing in four out of every five sales now. How do they do it so consistently?
- Fair play to Oscar if he wants to play for the paycheck. Let's not forget that Brazillians only started to ply their trade in Europe after their economy went tits up. At the end of the day, it's your life. Do things for yourself.
- That being said, I'm not sure why some are so confident that Oscar can just come back 2-3 years from now. He's coming to a substandard league, playing mostly with teammates who are a few levels of talent below him, in a city notorious for its nightlife. Almost guaranteed that he'll let his standards drop and he'll take it easy, it's just common for humans to slow down when they're not challenged. Even just a year away from elite European competition will severely affect his play. Nothing against him, but it's likely that he won't make it back.
- Chelsea either has a book of dirt for every moneyed team in the world or their negotiators must be used to dealing with terrorists and kidnappers. It's good enough to make a profit on 50% of their sales, but I think they're cashing in four out of every five sales now. How do they do it so consistently?
- Fair play to Oscar if he wants to play for the paycheck. Let's not forget that Brazillians only started to ply their trade in Europe after their economy went tits up. At the end of the day, it's your life. Do things for yourself.
- That being said, I'm not sure why some are so confident that Oscar can just come back 2-3 years from now. He's coming to a substandard league, playing mostly with teammates who are a few levels of talent below him, in a city notorious for its nightlife. Almost guaranteed that he'll let his standards drop and he'll take it easy, it's just common for humans to slow down when they're not challenged. Even just a year away from elite European competition will severely affect his play. Nothing against him, but it's likely that he won't make it back.
One Pogba is equal to Oscar and 29m. Poor Juve 
I thought was FIFA who made that law not UEFA
How much taxes they have to pay in China? After all still a weirdo communist country.
No, it's the UEFA and that only matters for UEFA competitions.
Nope, it was Platini's project until his son started working for the owners of PSG.
Unlike what people think the FFP is still there, Monaco for example has to put some money aside for guarantee.
They are still here in some way, but not how some people hoped them to be (i.e not spend more than you earn, and don't inflate commercial deals like PSG - and City to some degree - have done). I think that the 'project' was never going to be as Platini wanted initially, mainly because PSG unexpectedly got purchased by billionaires and it wasn't anymore just English clubs doing so. In addition, his son working for PSG's owner probably helped.
I don't mind it though, it was a bad plan anyway. Let the money flow, it is good for the competition.
China is too big to be summed up in one sentence, Shanghai is indeed quite nice, Beijing however, is not somewhere a millionaire wants to live.
Cristiano Ronaldo at 24/25 in today's market, more like £800m.
But that was only people weird fantasies and PSG has nothing to do with it.
The FFP was initially made for clubs like Malaga.
$73 million
This is getting silly
This is getting silly
We made enough money to buy Verratti.
60 million for Oscar is absolutely bonkers. It makes me wonder about Chelsea's ability to sell players for massive profits. Foil hat time but could all these transfer fees be subsidised by Roman Brolly-Witches' own money to try and cheat FFP?
Still think there is some type of Russian money laundering scheme going on with Chelsea's sales.
Give them Depay and Schneiderlin for 140 million
pls tell me this is fake
edit: tg it is
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This is a smile of a man who's just got much richer.
Jesus he's using £20 teddy bears as bauballs.
Though it does have the 6th most millionaires of any city
(Tokyo, new York, London, Paris, frankfurt bejing)
And the 4th most billionaires ...
In truth like with most major cities if you have the cash you will probably have a pretty great lifestyle
You don't think a few years in the Chinese League would leave him rather off the pace?
Really? Where did you get those figures? I'd be shocked to find there are more millionaires in Beijing than Hong Kong or Shanghai.