You’re all right, Joachim?
Shanghai Shenhua set to sign Tevez
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You’re all right, Joachim?
Fair play to both parties. Shanghai is probably the most impressive city I have ever been to and I am truly jealous of Tevez being paid so much to live in such a place. He is a great player and also a massive name in world football which is what the Chinese are desperate for.
But he was going home to play for his boyhood team, one of the biggest mercenaries in football.
We'll he did go home and play for them when he could still play in Europe for a few more seasons.
He would be crazy not to take this offer.
If the money stated is true the I don't blame him, 2 years living like a king in China then home (i don't know if he actually has money problems but near £50 million for 2 years makes life even easier)
In fact..
Dear China
I can kick a ball a bit I'd willingly work a 3 year contract and I'd be cheap at only 60k per week
In fact..
Dear China
I can kick a ball a bit I'd willingly work a 3 year contract and I'd be cheap at only 60k per week
Its not just that Tevez doesnt know where or what China is, its that his agent could take him there on a nose ring leash releasing him to run on the pitch and play football every Saturday, in between times telling him, "No, Carlos. This is Argentina, this is Argentina, look see the clouds" and he'd believe it.
yeah, you can feck the entire country by just one girl.
Nothing precious about not being a great believer in cash before family. He's a multi millionaire, not like he needs the cash. Greed isn't something people should aspire to.
Point being he never needs to work again anyways, he is a very rich individual.
To be fair Shanghai is probably not as big a culture shock as certain other areas in China (I may be wayyyy off on that one though), and if someone is stupid enough to pay that kind of money then why /judge fault anyone for turning it down?
Im fairly sure that this would allow him to take care of his family for the next few generations so there is that to it as well.
Im fairly sure that this would allow him to take care of his family for the next few generations so there is that to it as well.
I don't blame Tevez for taking this offer it's a lot of money for a short period. I'd probably do the same but on the other hand if i was in his position and decided i have enough money and had done enough travelling around the world playing football and just wanted to settle down in my home country with my family i don't think that makes someone an idiot.
That seems to have been his owners business plan from the beginning. He's never stayed anywhere longer than 2 years bar City where he bitched and moaned to leave for years and went on strike.
As an asian myself, I don't really understand why these Chinese clubs spend all the money for these players. Nobody really care about their league. Perhaps japanese and korean football are the two leagues that look decent. Even that I only watch glimpse of highlight.
That being said, if those chinese club looking for some player who can actually put them on map, they should look no further than our Wayne Rooney. If they get him, I probably going to start watch their league.
That being said, if those chinese club looking for some player who can actually put them on map, they should look no further than our Wayne Rooney. If they get him, I probably going to start watch their league.
The Chinese now have nothing but tonnes of money. They are buying anything and everything on earth now.
Looking like he will retire instead.
Would you not? Had his fun in different leagues won a lot now is time to make a shit ton of money and set his family up for life. Correct choice
Wasn't it something to do with city offering more money or his agent being a cnut
I predict the year 2023 is when we'll see the first £1m/week after tax wage packet signed. Probably Neymar.
That kind of argument is so strange yet you see it every time people discuss these deals. I mean I could understand it if we were talking about some random guy working in an office all day but from what I understand Tevez must have earned tens of millions over the course of his career. He already must have the ability to support his family for their entire life and spend every day with them if he wants to.
Btw I DO understand that it's crazy money even for someone like Tevez and it might not be easy to turn down an offer like that. But that argument about it changing his life or something like that I just don't understand.
You'd be stupid not to take up that kind of a deal.
Frightening money. Everyone would take that offer.
Seems mad to turn this down but he's already a multi-millionaire so why bother, how much money does one person need?. Maybe he'd prefer to spend the next year with his family and friends at home.
Yeah, seemed like a no-brainer at the time. Having Tevez up top for a couple seasons would have been great.
Yeah exactly my thoughts too.
Considering all he had to say about living in Manchester, I'm absolutely delighted he gets his dream move closer to home.
It's one of those feel good stories that make football the down to earth game we all enjoy in the 21st century.
IIRC, his contract that tine involved 3rd party owner which complicated the whole situation so SAF decided against keeping him.
It's actually pretty disgusting how much money is now thrown at football players. Over half a million a week could help so many thousands of people around the world. I know it's not the responsibility of football clubs to help people in poverty and they can do as they want with their money, but it all just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Was always his dream to play for Shanghai FC tbf.
Dont think anyone realy meant it would change his life, but to turn down that much money which if he wanted he could do a lot of good with seems silly. 'Ive got enough' is a bit of a lazy cop out really.
If i was Rooney rather than trying to maintain his ego and stay in the prem id go take the money in China or MLS.
was more to do with us buying berbatov and messing him about his second year .. One of Fergie's biggest mistakes which I'm sure he knows now.
It is crazy money even for Tevez. A few Icelandic players have gone there and gotten a big paycheck out of it. One was chucked out of his team because the top teams started getting even bigger names and there's a limit to foreigners but he just went down a league in China and makes more than he would in the Championship.
One was playing in Norway and when he moved there he got 10 times as much money as he did in Tippeligaen. No family for him however so an easy decision.
You do know how many professional athletes end up broke no matter how much money they earned in their career?
We don't know what Tevez does with his money ever he invests it ,donates it, it just gets ripped off by various people .
Whatever he does it makes sense at this point to get as much as can before his career ends so he doesn't end up with boring to show for it.
I read that 80% of American Footballers end up broke when their career is over and they are on Tevez like wages when they are playing
@Snow @lsd
I have to be honest I'm not sure what all that has to do with what I said
I didn't say going there is wrong or that it doesn't make sense or he can't have good reasons to go there and I also said it's crazy money even for him.
I have to be honest I'm not sure what all that has to do with what I said
I didn't say going there is wrong or that it doesn't make sense or he can't have good reasons to go there and I also said it's crazy money even for him.
I don't really think it's a lazy cop out. It's exactly the luxury you have as a very rich person. You can decline even crazy offers. But of course there are also good reasons to take the offer, I don't disagree with that.
You responded to two comments that were about how this move made sense for him and you found their argument strange. That's why I responded to you. You're contradicting yourself now.@Snow @lsd
I have to be honest I'm not sure what all that has to do with what I said
I didn't say going there is wrong or that it doesn't make sense or he can't have good reasons to go there and I also said it's crazy money even for him.
I don't really think it's a lazy cop out. It's exactly the luxury you have as a very rich person. You can decline even crazy offers. But of course there are also good reasons to take the offer, I don't disagree with that.
We offered him one but City offered him £280k pw and his owner a £47m fee. Compared to our £125k/£25m offer easy choice seeing as he had no loyalty to United. Don't think Ferguson was that fussed on him either to be honest.
Ok I wasn't sure at first but I guess I just didn't manage to get my point across then.
I didn't mean to say that his choice doesn't make sense. What I wanted to say is that the argument about taking the offer so he would be settled for life doesn't make sense because he's already "settled for life".
That doesn't mean going to China for the money can't make sense at all, just that he doesn't need to do it to be settled for life.
Are you sure he's settled for life? Athletes, especially those from poor backgrounds, are notoriously bad at managing their finances and a lot of people take advantage of that.
It's just a counter-argument to the 'but what about being at home with his family' argument. On it's own it doesn't really work because as you said, he'd have earnt enough to comfortably support his family for life now (mind you, he is thick as pigshit so it wouldn't surprise me if he'd pissed it away somehow).
The simple fact of the matter is that for 99.99% of the population, even if they were rich as sin they'd still want more of everything, including money so an offer like this is going to be turned down by very few indeed. We're greedy bastards as a species so it's only natural if someone waves a wad of cash in our faces we'd be attracted to it like flies around a light.
Well I don't of course! But if he's not settled after earning the money he already did I doubt you could say he'd really be settled after that year either.
Sure, not arguing against people wanting more and more. I'm not surprised by his choice nor do I think it's the "wrong" choice.