An Unfair Advantage, Chinese Clubs Can Swoop!Even Payet?

It is a strange anomaly, that while Barclays Premier League teams are intoxicated by the fiscal windfall they are about to receive, that they may have taken their eye of the proverbial ball! The signs were there when Chinese clubs were the biggest shakers and movers in the transfer market recently, but because they are not party to the same legislation as European clubs, they are allowed to sign players outside of the transfer window. This situation does ask the question as to the possible advantage the Chinese clubs have over their European competitors. Now the recent Murdoch delivered information is that an unnamed Chinese club have offered £38 Million for Dimitri Payet, the same club have also offered Payet £7.2 Million a year NET in wages! Now some sceptics might say this is an entirely agent looking for some extra income driven event, but to be honest that theory is unlikely, in addition Payet has not been the stellar performer as yet that he was at the beginning of the season, partly due to returning from a nasty injury ahead of time, but also because other team's managers have developed a double up, triple up formula to nullify his mercurial presence ( this of course opens up vast space for Payet's team mates). Either way, this would not be a prime time for Payet or his agent to throw a 'hissy' and the general consensus is that the currently circulating rumours are just that., rumours!
Of course this train of events could be due to a certain set of media outlets hijacking an already lame article, and indeed that will probably be the outcome, but the extent West Ham United and all the other top teams will be exposed to pernicious transfer enquiries from the far east should not be underestimated. West Ham and the player himself have been quick to distance themselves from any conflict, but the fact that the club have said that cordial negotiations are under way for an improved contract does rather endorse the threat there is from massively rich clubs in China. On the tenth anniversary of Ron Greenwood's death, one wonders what the great man would have made of his beloved game so awash with cash - Ed