Oscar off to China in January

[boots60]

 A career move. Nothing to do with £400,000 a week.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38414256

[Arriba Los Zorros]

What happened to Oscar? A couple of seasons ago he was touted as their best player and creative spark, now he can't get in the team and is leaving?

[filbertstreet]

he was my favourite sesame street

[Finnegan]

6 minutes ago, filbertstreet said:

he was my favourite sesame street

 

I like the green triangles.

[lgfualol]

Chelsea have sold him and Ramires for 80-odd million to China. Why doesn't China want our players that never play. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

7 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

Chelsea have sold him and Ramires for 80-odd million to China. Why doesn't China want our players that never play. 

 

If Abramovich isn't up to something with it I'll be massively surprised. There's no way Chelsea would've rejected an offer even half of what Shanghai offered for Oscar.

[Tuna]

I don't know why we sneer so much about players moving clubs and earning more money.

If any of us were offered the same job on twice the money what would we do? Exactly.

 

 

[ajthefox]

19 minutes ago, Tuna said:

I don't know why we sneer so much about players moving clubs and earning more money.

If any of us were offered the same job on twice the money what would we do? Exactly.

 

 

Not if it were in China and it was clearly a backwards step in terms of prestige, reputation etc.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

1 minute ago, ajthefox said:

Not if it were in China and it was clearly a backwards step in terms of prestige, reputation etc.

Not if we were already absolutely minted beyond our wildest dreams as well. Although I suppose he's left his homeland far behind already so what's the diffeence between London and Shanghai?

[foxy boxing]

The only reason any player chooses to play in China is for the money.the Chinese are spending huge amounts of money on their league particularly on transfers. 

[ajthefox]

3 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Not if we were already absolutely minted beyond our wildest dreams as well. Although I suppose he's left his homeland far behind already so what's the diffeence between London and Shanghai?

Good point that actually. 

[Guest Sharpe's Fox]

Chelsea are well good at getting big money for players they don't even want.

[Itsthejoeker]

21 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

Not if it were in China and it was clearly a backwards step in terms of prestige, reputation etc.

 

Why does he need a forward step? He's being set up for the rest of his life. 

[Dan]

Chelsea have had some absurd luck with teams buying their players.

[purpleronnie]

41 minutes ago, Itsthejoeker said:

 

Why does he need a forward step? He's being set up for the rest of his life. 

He was earning millions at Chelsea.

[Itsthejoeker]

12 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

He was earning millions at Chelsea.

 

Nowhere near as many millions as he'll earn now. 

 

54 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Chelsea have had some absurd luck with teams buying their players.

 

It's like when you take control of another team on FM and buy all your shit players for as much money as possible. 

[Soar Fox]

Fair play to him. If someone is willing to pay him that why not take it.

 

I would do exactly the same thing in his position 

[purpleronnie]

1 minute ago, Itsthejoeker said:

 

Nowhere near as many millions as he'll earn now. 

 

 

It's like when you take control of another team on FM and buy all your shit players for as much money as possible. 

But surely the millions he's already earn't and would continue to earn would have set him up for life. 

[TiffToff88]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

I like the green triangles.

That comment is top Quality. Streets ahead of the others.

[Fox92]

Tevez  will be earning £600k a week. After two years of that, he'll probably never step foot in China again  

[Samilktray]

Always find it weird how people moan about someone else's wage. 

[Guest Col city fan]

Another example of the sheer ridiculousness that is the Chinese Super League.

This is at the same time as the Chinese Economy takes a big nosedive and people are losing their jobs left, right and centre, particularly in manufacturing. Distasteful doesn't quite cut it.

[MC Prussian]

Great payday for him, although the domestic competition in China will be rather crap, and there's little to gain in Asian tournaments. It's an excessive amount of money for such a player, I wonder how these Chinese clubs amass all that wealth and how it can be they pour that much money into football?

 

Nothing to do with money laundering, hmm...

[Ross-Kemp]

I will never, ever begrudge a human being for effectively moving job for more money. Footballers play for what, 20 years IF you're lucky. They need to make the most of it.

 

What id like to see is honesty.

 

"Yeah I'm moving China for 2 years, they're offering me half a million quid a week".

[Ashley]

1 hour ago, Ross-Kemp said:

I will never, ever begrudge a human being for effectively moving job for more money. Footballers play for what, 20 years IF you're lucky. They need to make the most of it.

 

What id like to see is honesty.

 

"Yeah I'm moving China for 2 years, they're offering me half a million quid a week".

 

 

Sorry Ross normally agree with you on this forum but that statement is absoluete horse shit. 

 

Fair enough for the average human moving jobs for more money for themselves and family.. yeah I get that.

 

Footballers though? Majority on a FEW GRAND A WEEK which takes us normally a month or two to earn? then no. He would be set up for life already. There needs to be a wage cap in Football in my eyes. 'Working' as a footballer you'll be set for life and ovsr after a year!