Chinese Super League: The fate of Jinyuan Football has attracted a large number of world-class stars to join the Chinese Super League, but with the bursting of the Jinyuan bubble, these big-name foreign players have left. Today, the only remaining world-class star in the Chinese Super League is Brazilian midfielder Oscar of Shanghai Port. In 2017, Oscar turned down an offer from a European club and joined Chinese Super League upstart Shanghai Port. A year later, he led the team to the first Chinese Super League title in the club's history. However, in stark contrast to Oscar, some of the foreign players who were once on his par are now in the lower leagues.
Among them, Teixeira, the former foreign striker of Jiangsu Suning, is a typical example. Teixeira joined the Chinese Super League a year before Oscar, playing for Jiangsu Suning for five seasons, scoring 57 league goals and 33 assists, and leading the team to the Chinese Super League title in the 2020 season. However, Suning's club was soon disbanded after winning the championship, and Teixeira immediately became a free agent. After living in China for five years, he met the criteria for naturalization, and the Shanghai Harbour Club was interested in signing him, but eventually gave up.
Teixeira then moved to the Europa League to join Turkish Super League giants Besiktas, but his performance was not good and he was terminated after only one season. He then returned to the Brazilian Liga to join his former club Vasco da Gama, but had a poor season last season and was not renewed at the end of his two-year contract and has now left the club. Teixeira's transfer value has fallen to 900,000 euros, and his annual salary is less than 500,000 euros, which is in stark contrast to his annual salary of more than 10 million euros in the Chinese Super League. Perhaps, Teixeira has begun to regret leaving the Super League that year.
If he stays in the Chinese Super League and joins Shanghai Port to complete his naturalization, his annual salary, bonuses, and settling-in allowance will be at least tens of millions of euros, which is completely comparable to Oscar's income in the Port team. Now, Teixeira can still choose to play in the Chinese Super League, after all, he is only 33 years old, but his form is not good, and I don't know which Chinese Super League club is willing to sign him. To sum up, the fates of Oscar and Teixeira are very different, one has become the most expensive foreign player in the Chinese Super League, while the other has experienced a low point in his career.
The Chinese Super League has attracted a myriad of world-class stars, but their fate may be glimpsed in the stories of Oscar and Teixeira. For other foreign aid, what kind of choices and ways out will they face?After the bursting of the Golden Yuan bubble, the Chinese Super League seems to be ushering in a reshuffle. The traditional golden era is gone, and now the league is paying more attention to the development of young players. This also brings new challenges and opportunities for foreign players.
They need to be more careful about choosing their career paths, and league clubs need to re-examine their strategies and standards for bringing in foreign players. In this transition period, how the Chinese Super League will balance the relationship between bringing in world-class stars and cultivating local players has become an important issue that needs to be raised at present. What are your thoughts on the prospects for the development of foreign players in the Chinese Super League?What adjustments do you think the Chinese Super League should make in terms of bringing in foreign aid?