{"id":12029,"date":"2018-03-31T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=12029"},"modified":"2018-04-02T01:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T16:17:56","slug":"radja-nainggolan-rejecting-chinese-super-league-move-not-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/31\/radja-nainggolan-rejecting-chinese-super-league-move-not-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Radja Nainggolan on rejecting a Chinese Super League move: Not all about the money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radja Nainggolan revealed his decision of rejecting a Chinese Super League move.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that Chinese clubs, including Guangzhou Evergrande and Beijing Guoan, publicly express their interests to sign Nainggolan.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Belgian International <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/03\/radja-nainggolan-denies-chinese-super-league-rumors\/\">rejected them all<\/a> and stayed with the Giallorossi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always had a good relationship with Spalletti, he put me in the best condition to express myself, but ultimately there was no chance that I\u2019d leave Roma,&#8221; he spoke to\u00a0Il Tempo, as translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.italianfootballdaily.com\/roma-nainggolan-not-all-about-the-money\/\">Italian Football Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t want to go there. There was interest but nothing concrete. There was no offer, yet it was claimed \u2018Spalletti\u2019s bringing Nainggolan, Strootman etc with him.\u2019 It was mostly paper talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the 29-year-old stated\u00a0he would be a &#8220;liar&#8221; if he claimed he was not interested in money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina? There was a little something, although nothing serious. I\u2019d be a liar if I said money didn\u2019t interest me. I am 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the truth is that in the past, I rejected important offers. Two years ago I could\u2019ve gone to Chelsea and earn more, but for me it\u2019s not all about money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s one thing to say: \u2018I\u2019m going to have a good time in China and get this money.\u2019 There are people who are willing to do anything just to go and get all that money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther issues to take into account are the level I\u2019m playing at and changing city and lifestyle. I haven\u2019t thought about that yet. I\u2019m happy here and that\u2019s it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radja Nainggolan revealed his decision of rejecting a Chinese Super League move. It has been reported that Chinese clubs, including Guangzhou Evergrande and Beijing Guoan, publicly express their interests to sign Nainggolan. However, the Belgian International rejected them all and stayed with the Giallorossi. \u201cI\u2019ve always had a good relationship with Spalletti, he put me in the best condition to express myself, but ultimately there was no chance that I\u2019d leave Roma,&#8221; he spoke to\u00a0Il Tempo, as translated by Italian Football Daily. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t want to go there. There was interest but nothing concrete. There was no offer, yet it was claimed \u2018Spalletti\u2019s bringing Nainggolan, Strootman etc &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/31\/radja-nainggolan-rejecting-chinese-super-league-move-not-money\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Radja Nainggolan on rejecting a Chinese Super League move: Not all about the money&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1191,83,596,228],"class_list":["post-12029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-as-roma","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-radja-nainggolan","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029","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=12029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}