“Because China looks to have the financial power to move a whole league of Europe to China”.
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European clubs should be anxious by Chinese football’s display of economic might in the January transfer window, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said today. Will they sustain their desire to do it?
Welbeck, who moved to Arsenal from Manchester United in the summer of 2014, has therefore not turned out for the first-team this season but continued on his path of recovery by playing 60 minutes of a Barclays Under-21 league clash against the Seagulls at Arsenal’s London Colney training base. Let’s remember, a few years ago, Japan started to do it and slowed down after.
He added that the first £100m transfer will soon be “easy to reach”.
Wenger also predicted the Chinese league’s recent splurge could further inflate the transfer market, but the Frenchman argued the Premier League’s blockbuster domestic TV rights deal which kicks in at the season of next season will play its part too. “He has a good basic fitness, but after it’s about competitiveness, decision making”. Rosicky then sustained a new injury after coming on as a substitute against Burnley in the FA Cup last weekend, and faces another injury layoff of up to three months.
Although he was unable to get on the score sheet, Welbeck, who was replaced Josh Dasilva, will have benefited greatly from his first taste of action in 10 months. Though Hodgson has previously said he wants players back fit well before the end of the season in order to be considered for the tournament.
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“You can not praise the quality of our strikers and on the other hand say that it is a mistake that we have not bought any strikers”, he said on Friday. “It makes it interesting, even if we would love it to be less interesting”, he joked. “It will be five or six teams [that are in the title race]”.
