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Agence France-Presse

Brazilian Oscar was given a hero’s welcome when he landed in Shanghai on Monday in a €60 million (HK$487m) deal from Chelsea that smashes the Asian transfer record.
Dozens of chanting Shanghai SIPG supporters mobbed the international midfielder, 25, at the city’s Pudong airport.
Oscar’s arrival in the Chinese Super League (CSL) comes ahead of that of Argentina’s former Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez, who signed for Shanghai Shenhua in another big-money deal last week.
Tevez’s transfer fee was €10.5m, according to the website transfermarkt.com which tracks football transfers, and the 32-year-old is reportedly set to become the highest-paid player in the world with a two-year contract of €38m per season.

Oscar’s deal with Shanghai SIPG is thought to be €24m a season, which would put him above Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, but the fee they paid to Chelsea eclipses the estimated €55.8m the ambitious Chinese side shelled out for Brazilian striker Hulk in July.
SIPG general manager Sui Guoyang admits that Chinese clubs need to offer eye-watering sums of money if they are to get in the big names.
Brazilian Oscar to move from Chelsea to Shanghai SIPG for reported Asian record £60m
“If we don’t offer 60 million euros, do you think he will bother to come?” Sui asked last week of Oscar, according to Sky Sports.
“There’s such a huge gap between CSL and Europe’s top leagues. It’s unrealistic to suggest that we would have done it in a different way.

“The cost of signing the player was 60 million euros indeed, not £60m. The club’s senior management personally flew to Paris to seal the deal.”
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, who dropped Oscar this season and deemed him surplus to requirements at the Premier League title-chasers, last month said the burgeoning financial muscle of Chinese clubs was “a danger” to football because few other teams in the world could compete with the vast sums they are splashing out.
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After escorting Oscar through a media scrum on arrival, Sui dismissed concerns raised by Chinese state media of a market bubble in the Chinese league, again arguing that prices have to be higher to attract players away from big European leagues.
“The league is developing so of course it will go through many different stages,” Sui said.

“I believe that from now on the Chinese Super League will become healthier and more normal.”
Oscar and Hulk will work under former Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas at the Shanghai club.

I'm very happy #ShanghaiSIPG ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/ctJOeo52Pb
— Oscar (@oscar8) January 2, 2017

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Brazilian Oscar receives flowers as he arrives in Shanghai. Photo: AFP

Brazilian football player Oscar (C) is escorted as he arrives at Shanghai airport on January 2, 2017. Brazilian midfielder Oscar landed in Shanghai on January 2, 2017 where the 25-year-old was set to smash the Asian transfer record with a reported 63 million USD deal with Shanghai SIPG. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 file photo Chelsea's Oscar runs with the ball during the English League Cup Fourth Round soccer match between Stoke City and Chelsea at the Britannia Stadium, Stoke on Trent, England. Brazil playmaker Oscar became the latest high-profile player to be lured to the cash-rich Chinese Super League when he sealed a move to Shanghai SIPG from Chelsea for a reported 60 million pounds ($73.5 million) on Friday Dec. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, File)

Brazilian international midfielder Oscar arrives at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport, after agreeing to join China super league football club Shanghai SIPG from Chelsea in Shanghai, China, January 2, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song

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epa05674350 (FILE) A file picture dated 07 August 2016 of Chelsea's Oscar scoring the 2-0 lead during a friendly test soccer match between Werder Bremen and Chelsea FC in Bremen, Germany. English Premier League side Chelsea FC have received a club record offer from Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG for Brazilian midfielder Oscar, worth 60 million pounds (71.5 million euro), British media reports stated on 13 December 2016. EPA/CARMEN JASPERSEN/ *** Local Caption *** 52931983

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Oscar playing for Chelsea in August 2016. Photo: EPA

Boca Juniors' forward Carlos Tevez (R) controls the ball past Racing Club's midfielders Oscar Romero (L) and Diego Gonzalez during their Argentina First Division football match at La Bombonera stadium, in Buenos Aires, on December 4, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ALEJANDRO PAGNI

Brazil's Hulk poses with his new jersey during a press conference for joining Shanghai SIPG Football Club in Shanghai on July 1, 2016. Zenit St Petersburg's Brazilian international Hulk arrived in Shanghai on June 29 to sign for Sven-Goran Eriksson's Shanghai SIPG team, as the cash-flush Chinese Super League embarks on a new round of transfer spending. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT

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