亚亚-图雷、费迪南德这些老迈的球员都得到过中超的天价合同,但他们悉数拒绝了。鲁尼曾经收到过中超的天价报价,然而他除了钱之外对中超毫无概念。去年春天,鲁尼的顾问给了他一份报告:他们的场地烂的骇人听闻,球员水平跟想象的一样差,但是裁判甚至比球员更差,那里处处是黑幕和贿赂(The pitches were appalling,the standard as bad as everyone thought,and the referees even worse,in a league blackened by tales of match-fixing and bribery)。