As long as the league can sell TV rights around the world for gazillions, then the clubs' coffers will keep filling up and the players wage demands (and transfer fees) will keep going up. Also, China is a disruption as they're overpaying for anyone they can get.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Fantastic news, anyone know the finer details?

110,000 / week.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Good point but it will be large no doubt and I think with his AFCON commitments that a few big clubs like the Spuds might not wish a punt at the moment. However if he keeps shining then this will not matter and we would be hard to keep him.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

All is relative. here in Holland we look to England that way and I for one have vowed to never , never but truly never watch a single Chines game of football in my life. having said that I'm a hypocrite because I do enjoy the PL but the money is obscene and taking a lot away from the really game.

Ridiculous thread , someone even mentioning Dougie Freedman
hahahahahahahahaha
this is the premier league , not the Croydon Sunday