China Plays Moneyball With European Soccer – Wall Street Journal

LONDON—Watch out, warns Arsenal Football Club manager Arsène Wenger: A mass exodus of soccer talent from Europe to China may be under way, encouraged by record-breaking transfer fees and fat salaries.

Yes, China. This is a country where the national men’s team is a humiliating failure, reflecting a long history of corruption and match-fixing at a league level. In FIFA’s latest world rankings it sits just one place above the Faeroe Islands, rocky outcrops halfway between Iceland and Norway with a population of 50,000….