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Graziano Pelle becomes the highest paid Italian player after China move
Graziano Pelle will earn €16 million-a-year following his move from Southampton to Chinese Super League side Shandong Luneng.
Category: Asia
Buriram’s huge backward steps in Asian Champions League 2016
Paul Murphy picks apart what was a poor Asian Champions League showing by Buriram United of Thailand.
Zico leads Thailand’s golden generation to new heights
Paul Murphy reports from Thailand where the national team Is going from strength to strength in its 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign.
Sun sets on Toshiya Miura’s ‘silk and steel’ Vietnam
As Japanese coach Toshiya Miura leaves Vietnam, Fikri Jermadi looks back at the silk and steel impact of his reign.
AFC Champions League – Johor winning in defeat
Fikri Jermadi reads between the lines of a pulsating AFC Champions League qualifier between Johor Darul Ta’zim FC and Muangthong United.
Damien Duff’s golden starts in Malaysia
Fikri Jermadi recalls how Damien Duff caught everyone’s attention in Malaysia way back in 1997 and how his return six years later signalled his rise to football’s top table.
An Australian in the Malaysia Cup game of thrones
Fikri Jermadi looks at the significance of Selangor FA’s latest Malaysia Cup win under Mehmet Durakovic.
Sven, Avram, Kenny Shiels and the fall of one of Thailand’s biggest clubs
Paul Murphy looks at BEC Tero Sasana from Thailand who are no longer the club that they once were.
China’s football revolution
Thomas Wyer discusses the reasons why China is about to burst onto the scene, both internationally and domestically.
Big business is about to send football into hyperdrive
Football has never been a business before, but is about to become one and this is good news all round, writes Thomas Wyer.