As the Chinese Super League moves into the era of gold dollar soccer, there has been an influx of European and American players, and Shanghai Port's Oscar is undoubtedly one of the best.
In 2017, the Harbour Club recruited Oscar for €60 million. The 25-year-old Brazilian midfielder played for Chelsea in the English Premier League. Now, Oscar has fought for Seaport for eight seasons, making 140 appearances in the Chinese Super League, contributing 43 goals and 85 assists to help Seaport win their first Chinese Super League title in 2018.
Oscar has become the soul of the Harbor team, and his joining has dramatically strengthened the team's strength, and as a result, he has reaped a generous annual salary - as much as 24 million euros. However, with the decline of the overall level of the Chinese Super League, Oscar's contract will expire in November next year, and the harbor club offered to extend the annual salary of only 3 million euros, which is difficult to accept in Oscar's view.
Although Harbour Club offered Oscar a prominent position after his retirement, it did not impress him. According to Brazilian media reports, Oscar has explicitly refused to renew his contract.
Recently, the harbor club suffered a major blow, the parent company of the Shanghai Group executives Yan Jun was "double regulation", the chairman of the board of directors Zhang Min was also investigated, resulting in the morale of the team is low, the league and the AFC Champions League consecutive losses. If not adjusted in time, even the Super League title will be difficult to protect.
Under these circumstances, Harbour Club had to make drastic internal adjustments, including the salary structure, which was the trigger for Oscar's refusal to renew his contract. Now, Oscar's departure from Harbour is set, and he will surely bid farewell to the team when his contract expires next November.
Meanwhile, Fellaini, a foreign player of the same caliber as Oscar, announced the early termination of his contract with Shandong Taishan and officially left the club at the end of the season. Although Fellaini's transfer fee and salary were not as high as Oscar's, his achievements in the Chinese Super League far exceeded the latter's, winning three FA Cups and one Chinese Super League title for Taishan. This season, Taishan is expected to win another double.
Currently, Fellaini and Oscar have become the last two big-name foreign aiders of the Chinese Super League's golden dollar era. They left one after another, marking the end of the golden dollar era of the Chinese Super League. Chinese soccer is in the doldrums, and if the FA does not adjust its policies, the future will be even bleaker.
