Napoli star Dries Mertens has revealed that he turned down a lucrative move to the Chinese Super League.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Belgian international forward, who has scored 16 times in Italian Serie A this season, says he was offered a contract that would have ‘made his grandchildren rich’.<\/p>\n
“I thought about it for a day but I refused,” he told Nieuwsblad.<\/em><\/p>\n “I can assure you one thing – it was really hard to say ‘no’ to such a figure because it guarantees wealth for your children and even grandchildren.<\/p>\n “Am I curious about what’s happening to [Axel] Witsel? Yes, we’ve sought information about it, and together with my wife, we’ve weighed up the pros and cons from testimonies of people who have been there.<\/p>\n “Sometimes you hear players talking about their life choices as a search for a new experience. It’s not true, they’re driven by money.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Napoli star Dries Mertens has revealed that he turned down a lucrative move to the Chinese Super League. The 29-year-old Belgian international forward, who has scored 16 times in Italian Serie A this season, says he was offered a contract that would have ‘made his grandchildren rich’. “I thought about it for a day but I refused,” he told Nieuwsblad. “I can assure you one thing – it was really hard to say ‘no’ to such a figure because it guarantees wealth for your children and even grandchildren. “Am I curious about what’s happening to [Axel] Witsel? Yes, we’ve sought information about it, and together with my wife, we’ve weighed … Continue reading “Dries Mertens turns down lucrative move to China”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[154,83,259,260],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-east-asia","tag-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-dries-mertens","tag-napoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}