yuvala 2,167 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Is he kinda off-form this season? haven't been following really.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
We Hate Scouse 10,332 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Is he kinda off-form this season? haven't been following really..20 goals in 36 games for Porto this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Now, here is the player to buy, I feel. According to the latest, he is offered. Remember injury free too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseah100 5,612 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Now, here is the player to buy, I feel.According to the latest, he is offered. Remember injury free too.For how much? He'd be a good second choice, Costa-Martinez-Torres isn't bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 100, Apparently for 32m. Not cheap, but a promising & prolific goal scorer. I would rather him than Costa. There's something about Costa's injuries that I am almost certain he is prone to injuries. Martinez, Lukaku, Ferda for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. 2,742 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Off to China by the looks of it, another player that just wants money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empire of emotions 247 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 they want costa back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,186 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Loves the cash, winning stuff matters little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 10 hours ago, Billy. said: Off to China by the looks of it, another player that just wants money Bullet dodged. Never thought he was good enough anyway. Ripped Portuguese league apart, but was quite inefficient in Spain - never a good predicament for EPL, especially Chelsea, where strikers come to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseah100 5,612 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Thank god he never came here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MefiX19 1,092 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 42 fucking milion euros. From where the fuck those clubs have so much money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmin 2,484 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 17 minutes ago, MefiX19 said: 42 fucking milion euros. From where the fuck those clubs have so much money? And when you think about all of those poor Chinese people starving... Smh... What this world has come to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essien19 1,415 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 42 fucking milion euros. From where the fuck those clubs have so much money? And when you think about all of those poor Chinese people starving... Smh... What this world has come to. Same could be said about Russia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Mikel OBE 4,920 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 1 hour ago, Cosmin said: And when you think about all of those poor Chinese people starving... Smh... What this world has come to. Until the recent stock troubles, and even with it, China has been on a steep rise. The 20th century belonged to the USA The 21st will most certainly be Chinas. Good move for Jackson. 30 years old, and a big pay day coming after being "meh" in Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Colored Sky 1,807 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 29 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said: Until the recent stock troubles, and even with it, China has been on a steep rise. The 20th century belonged to the USA The 21st will most certainly be Chinas. Good move for Jackson. 30 years old, and a big pay day coming after being "meh" in Spain. He is 29 by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 6,599 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Well if China is buying then let's hope we can sell more players to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnythefirst 1,076 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 3 hours ago, Cosmin said: And when you think about all of those poor Chinese people starving... Smh... What this world has come to. Are you serious? Your own club is being sponsored by a Russian oligarch/mobster (probably :p). I know several people who left Russia for China to teach English, making three times the money they would have made at home. This said, the fact they can get a player in his prime for that money is kinda scary. That league is complete shit, so I thought they would only be able to get the 36 year olds wanting some quick cash before their retirement. Also, there's a big difference between the Chinese countryside and the major cities. Shanghai & Beijing (the two main ones I've visited) are basically first world cities (with lots of poverty hid away between the skyscrapers, but without any real slums you'd see in India for example). The city centres look awesome. Hong Kong on the other hand is one of the richest cities on the planet. They have less poverty than we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmin 2,484 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 1 minute ago, johnnythefirst said: Are you serious? Your own club is being sponsored by a Russian oligarch/mobster (probably :p). I know several people who left Russia for China to teach English, making three times the money they would have made at home. How is Abramovich's example relevant here? Well, good for them, but poverty is still a big issue in China. They might have a strong economy, but their political regime doesn't really give too much opportunities to average people. That's why their workforce is so cheap and huge companies exploit people there. A lot of Chinese people really are starving. That's a fact. And now they decide to invest huge amounts of money in a sport that they don't know anything about, in a sport that they don't have tradition in. It would've been understandable to invest in gymnastics, for example. But football? In China? It's really weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnythefirst 1,076 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 1 minute ago, Cosmin said: How is Abramovich's example relevant here? Well, good for them, but poverty is still a big issue in China. They might have a strong economy, but their political regime doesn't really give too much opportunities to average people. That's why their workforce is so cheap and huge companies exploit people there. A lot of Chinese people really are starving. That's a fact. And now they decide to invest huge amounts of money in a sport that they don't know anything about, in a sport that they don't have tradition in. It would've been understandable to invest in gymnastics, for example. But football? In China? It's really weird. I was just mentioning the situation in Russia is almost identical. Yes, the lowest of the lowest labour might be less cheap ok, but poverty is a very real thing in Mother Russia as well. Why should English teams be able to spend 50 million on a player but not Chinese clubs? They could have fed a lot of hungry stomachs with the KDB transfer fee as well. It's a complete non argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike 12,049 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 If anyone is interested in the sporting culture of China read 'Mao's Last Dancer' by Li Cunxin - a Chinese-Austrlaian ballet dancer that fled China to Australian. You may be thinking: "Ballet? Piss off, Spike you mad bastard". Some of the ordeals he went through, physical and emotional hardship to be the best ballet dancer he could makes athletes look like pansies. As a teenager I was fortunate enough to hear a lecture given by him in Brisbane, the emotion carried in his words were phenomenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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