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That link only shows transfer fees but a bigger part of it is the wages these Chinese clubs are offering. The club Tianjin Quanjian apparently offered Chelsea 75m for Diego Costa, which isn't that far off what I'd expect him to get in the regular market. The kicker was that they were also offering him a 600k a week salary, which is almost 4 times what he gets at Chelsea. and even more than Neymar's getting in this PSG deal. And nothing about it is illegal. These Chinese clubs are just emphasising wages over transfer fees, which is obviously great news for players but terrible news for the clubs they're with, who can't match those wages and If they set the buy-out clause too high then players (or more likely their agents) will simply accuse them of deliberately pricing them out of the market.
Before the PSG deal, the world's top 2 players in terms of weekly wage were both at Chinese clubs. Oscar on 440k pw, and Tevez on 600k pw. Ronaldo was in 3rd place. Real pay him 350k pw. Neymar's probably number 1 now but it still shows how much China is bucking the market.
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