China will be a power house in football in the next 10 years, and will be hosting a world cup very soon in which they deserve too imo anyway. Big nations like that who actually influence the world should get to host it, like Russia i don't mind the world cup there, maybe a bit less after what they have done to Ukraine but still.

RvB

Netherlands6303 Posts

February 05 2016 08:44 GMT

#5104

China will be like Qatar. Everyone goes there for the money and play terrible. Not that it matters since they'll still be better than anyone else in that league.

malcram

2752 Posts

February 05 2016 09:41 GMT

#5105

chinese businessmen laundering money

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

February 05 2016 11:39 GMT

#5106

At the same time, the second Portuguese division signed a sposnsorship ontract with a chinese company, which requires the top10 teams to field at least one chinese player for a certain time per season

This happened few weeks ago.
Now chinese clubs obviously have to compensate their losses, because portuguese clubs buying out all their stars!

Skynx

Turkey7150 Posts

February 05 2016 11:49 GMT

#5107

This reminds me of that chinese top gear episode where China eventually takes over the world.

bObaZ

Portugal864 Posts

February 05 2016 11:55 GMT

#5108

On February 05 2016 20:39 mahrgell wrote:
At the same time, the second Portuguese division signed a sposnsorship ontract with a chinese company, which requires the top10 teams to field at least one chinese player for a certain time per season

This happened few weeks ago.
Now chinese clubs obviously have to compensate their losses, because portuguese clubs buying out all their stars!

That line was taken out of the contract because it was creating a lot of problems here. All of the presidents of the 2nd league clubs were complaining that they wouldn't follow that rule.

But we already have some Chinese players playing on lower divisions.

We don't exactly have an history of having people from Asia but in the last few years it changed a bit.

We had a Japanese player in Sporting (Tanaka) and now we have a Korean player in Porto (Suk)

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

February 05 2016 12:31 GMT

#5109

oh.
How sad, this could have been a lot of fun and would have created a new tactical element when to put your dummy player on the pitch. :D
And in the Bundesliga we have a few teams importing Japanese and Korean players. And those usually do reasnoably well.

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

February 05 2016 13:54 GMT

#5110

Jose Mourinho and his representatives are increasingly confident he will be Manchester United manager next season, sources have told ESPN FC, although a deal has yet to be signed.

The Portuguese's camp now believe there is significant enthusiasm for his appointment among key members of the Old Trafford hierarchy, with Louis van Gaal expected to leave in the summer.

However, that enthusiasm is not yet unanimous among the United ownership, and a source said that one of the Glazer family admires the work of Mauricio Pochettino, who currently has Tottenham Hotspur in third place in the Premier League.

Source

Dingodile

4139 Posts

February 06 2016 11:49 GMT

#5111

many interesting games today
13:45 CET ManC vs Leicester (55min from now)
15:30 CET Schalke vs Wolfsburg
15:30 CET Hertha vs Dortmund
18:30 CET Leverkusen vs Bayern

If Dortmund wins today then there are 13pts difference between 2nd (Dortmund) and 3rd (Hertha or Leverkusen).