LOIC REMY LOOKS set to be the latest footballer to be seduced by the riches and ambitious plans of the Chinese Super League.
Reports have circulated in France that the Chelsea striker, who joined from QPR for £8.5m in August 2014, was set for a switch to Shanghai Shenhua though they’re not believed to be the only Chinese team interested.
The fee mentioned is £20m with Remy rumoured to have been offered £7m in salary.
The 29-year-old French international has struggled for regular football since moving to Stamford Bridge with the vast majority of his 42 appearances coming as a substitute.
China has begun to flex its muscles in recent weeks as the country’s state-backed plan to develop a ‘sports economy’ has resulted in high-profile and in-demand footballers being signed.
Former Chelsea midfielder Ramires has joined Jiangsu Suning, as has Alex Teixeira who was widely linked with a move to Liverpool. The outlay on both players came to just under £60m.
Other notable players have joined the league too, including Jackson Martinez while others, like Demba Ba, Tim Cahill and Gervinho are already there.
Shanghai dabbled a little with big-name stars before. In 2012, they signed Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka though both didn’t stay for very long.
Talk about more money than sense.if Ian Ayre is any way good at his job he’d be in contact with the Chinese offering them 75%+ of the liverpool squad and hope they’re dumb enough to buy “top,established premier league superstars”
The only Chinese that’d take them are the ones who need someone to deliver their food……
Fran let me dream please
‘Lose another player’ as if Chelsea are being forced into this deal. If the Chinese wish to blow their yuan over-priced benchwarmers, Abramovich is happy to oblige.
In fairness to Chelsea they seem well able to sell average players for inflated fees Liverpool should take note
The Chinese. A great bunch of lads
Better than warming the bench at Chelsea..
20 million. Lol. Chelsea would hire a private jet and fly him there for that deal to go through.
And People are wondering why Liverpool need to raise the price of tickets. This new Chinese market is only going to inflate the price of average footballers even more. 30
To 40 million will be the average price for average footballers next year. China seem to be able to attract footballers who are still in their prime unlike say America which is more of a retirement home.
Each club is only allowed 4 foreign players so it will stop soon enough, unless they start cancelling contracts to get in new players.
Notoriously sketchy club. Drogba left because they weren’t paying him.
Is this the same Loic Remy who turned down a move to Leicester because he wanted to prove himself at a big club?