Chronicle EditorLONDON. — Carlos Tevez has become the world’s highest paid soccer player after joining Shanghai Shenhua in a £77 million deal from Boca Juniors.
The former Manchester United and City striker has penned a two-year deal worth £31,5 million-a-year with the Chinese Super League club.
The Argentinian club will also receive a £14 million fee in the deal sealed just a few weeks after Tevez was given an emotional send off in a 4-1 victory over Colon. As Tevez made his way from the field of play at La Bombonera, he waved to supporters and even embraced a pitch invader, who had dropped to his knees to worship the ex-Juventus hitman.
Young supporters were pictured holding up banners telling Tevez not to leave. However, the money on offer in the Far East has proved too much for the 32-year-old to resist.
He’s set to earn £615 000-a-week in Shanghai — the city where Chelsea’s Brazilian playmaker Oscar will also reside after sealing his own mega-bucks move to Shanghai SIPG.
Tevez became the latest high-profile international player to join the Chinese Super League when Shanghai Shenhua confirmed the player’s signing from his boyhood club Boca Juniors yesterday. — AFP.
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