- 30,235
- 21,661
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2009
Timbers with that nice gold star this year
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: this_feature_currently_requires_accessing_site_using_safari
Timbers with that nice gold star this year
Former Chelsea striker Gaël Kakuta moves to Hebei China Fortune
Gaël Kakuta has become the latest player to move to the Chinese Super League, with the former Chelsea winger joining Hebei China Fortune.
The 24-year-old swapped west London for Sevilla in the summer having failed to make his mark at Stamford Bridge and spent loan spells with six different clubs.
Sevilla reportedly had to pay €3.5m (£2.5m) compensation for the out-of-contract Kakuta – a fee they are reported to have nearly doubled by selling the Frenchman on to China.
His former Chelsea team-mate Ramires, Liverpool target Alex Teixeira and Colombia striker Jackson Martínez have all made big-money moves to the Chinese Super League in recent weeks.
Kakuta now joins former QPR midfielder – and Sevilla team-mate - Stéphane Mbia at Hebei China Fortune, where ex-Arsenal forward Gervinho is now also plying his trade.
Kakuta moved to Chelsea as a teenager in 2007 and became a prominent player for the Blues’ youth team, graduating to the senior squad after two years in west London.
However, in September 2009, Fifa banned the player for four months and placed Chelsea under a transfer embargo due to an alleged breach of contract with his former club Lens.
The transfer ban and suspension were successfully appealed against, but Kakuta would struggle for first-team action and went on loan to Fulham, Bolton, Dijon, Vitesse, Lazio then Rayo Vallecano.
Burak Yilmaz, the Turkey international, has also gone to China, joining Beijing Guoan from Galatasaray.
Funny how Gazidis was running his mouth last year of how Arsenal are ready to compete financially and commercially with the rest of Europe and all of a sudden the "We have no money to spend" excuses start coming in with the clubs bad run of results ( A usual sight under Wenger's tenure in recent years). And not too long ago Wenger was boasting how the club have money to spend and how he's only looking for "super quality" to bring in.The excuses...
View media item 1900024
Here there every ******* where empty seats...empty seatsssss