Report: Ronaldinho rejects England, may head to China
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Ronaldinho has reportedly rejected an offer to join English Premier League leader Leicester City and could be the next Brazilian to move to China.
Brazilian portal Lancenet reported on Wednesday that Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri made the two-time FIFA World Player of the Year winner a target during the January transfer window.
The East Midlands outfit instead signed teenage winger Demarai Gray and 21-year-old Ghana international Daniel Amartey as it chases its first Premier League title.
Ronaldinho, 35, has not played competitively since parting ways with Brazil’s Fluminense in September. The report added that “R10 is close to signing with a Chinese club,” without providing further details.
Among former Brazil internationals to join the Chinese Super League in the past two months are Ramires (Jiangsu Suning), Jadson (Tianjin Quanjian), Luis Fabiano (Tianjin Quanjian), Renato August (Beijing Guo’an), Ralf (Beijing Guo’an) and Gil (Shandong Luneng).
Chinese clubs spent more per player than any other country in the January transfer window, according to data from FIFA’s Transfer Matching System (TMS) seen by London’s The Times. A flurry of high-profile transfers to CSL has pushed the country up to third in the table of total spending behind traditional powerhouses England and Spain.
China will overtake Spain and move into second place after 30 more transfers are processed by the TMS, including Jackson Martinez’s 42 million euro (US$47 million) switch to Guangzhou Evergrande from Atletico Madrid on Wednesday.
Excluding the Martinez deal, clubs in China’s top-flight spent 33 million pounds on 10 players in the window, compared with 120 million pounds on 115 players by English clubs and 42 million pounds on 104 players by Spanish clubs.
The transfer window in China does not close until February 26, so the country’s level of spending is likely to increase further.
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