China Super League outfit Jiangsu Suning have £57 million Oscar bid rejected by Chelsea; Alex Teixeira on his way

China’s stunning impact in the winter transfer window continued as Jiangsu Suning had a massive bid for Chelsea’s Oscar rejected, according to reports in England, and broke the Asian transfer record again with a €50 million (HK$436.6 million) deal for Shakhtar Donetsk forward Alex Teixeira.

Teixeira had seemed set to join English Premier League outfit Liverpool in January before the Reds balked at the Ukrainian side’s asking price.

Ever more remarkably, according to The Sun and the Daily Telegraph, Jiangsu launched an audacious bid to prise midfielder Oscar from Chelsea – for anywhere between £57m and £75m depending on which report you believe.

Jiangsu have already bought Ramires from Chelsea this winter, but while he was seen as surplus to requirements, his fellow Brazilian midfielder is an integral part of the team.

Even so, if the £75m reported by the Telegraph is accurate, it will have taken a force of will from Chelsea to reject it.

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That fee would have been the second highest fee paid to a British club after Gareth Bale’s £86m move from Tottenham to Real Madrid.