The Chinese Super League decline: Champions going bust, player exodus and 'deepening turmoil'

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Published at : 05 Dec 2021
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The Chinese Super League was attracting some of the best players in the world four or five years ago, with the likes of Oscar, Hulk and Carlos Tevez convinced by the project. So what happened to it? David Ornstein is joined this week by The Athletic reporter Matt Slater to detail how the league went from boom to bust…

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0:00 The initial boom
5:12 Why didn’t it work?
7:55 What’s going on now?

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