That is an amount that most Spanish clubs cannot spend let alone on a young and largely unproven Japanese player playing for a Portuguese mid table club.
€35 million? You got to love oil/gas money.
It makes more sense when you read this.
http://www.fichajes.com/breves/shoya-nakajima-se-marcha-a-catar-por-35-meur_145257
Don't know how good Nakajima is but it wouldnt' surprised me if he would end up "on loan" at PSG if nothing else to get more fans in Japan/Asia.
) is owned by the Qatari ruling family as well so the QSG connection that you have mentioned probably makes sense. However it is a very strange move sporting wise for a player approaching 25 years of age and a player who has done very well in Portugal. It's basically not just one step down but several steps down career wise. Unless it will be a short stint in Qatar before he moves to QSG in the summer.
and it helps when the games are made widely accessible to anybody who has a TV set (because it has been carried by CCTV for as long as I remember).
Well, like I said we romanticize Germany way too much perhaps
Actually there had been quite a few Chinese players joining Bundesliga, as a matter of fact the first batch of Chinese players going abroad went to Germany. Yang Chen, who is from my hometown Beijing, was the first Chinese player ever to go overseas and he remains the most successful and prolific one to this day, scoring 21 goals in 94 appearances for Eintracht Frankfurt in 3 seasons between 1998 and 2001 and was selected by Kicker magazine three times as the best XI of Bundesliga back then. Another personal favorite of mine, Shao Jiayi, also from Beijing went to play for TSV 1860 Munich and then went on to play for Cottbus and Duisburg in early 2000's. So far there have been 5 Chinese players who played in Bundesliga vs. 5 played in the EPL vs. just 2 in La Liga (including the latest Wu Lei. the first one, Zhang Chengdong joined Rayo Vallecano in 2015 and only played as a sub in 4 games).
From my recollection not just Chinese players, more Japanese and South Korean players as well have played in the Bundesliga than any other leagues.
