Shanghai SIPG have accomplished the signing of Brazil international Hulk from Zenit St Petersburg.
The chinese language super League (CSL) membership have paid €56 million for the player, which represents a new transfer report for the league. Zenit would be due another €2 million must he ranking greater than 15 targets.
Hulk is said to have agreed an annual earnings of €12.5m earlier than bonuses, which would make him the CSL's first-rate-paid player.
"Hulk has gone through medical examination and the club has simply signed the contract with him," Shanghai SIPG said in a declaration.
The 29-yr-old joined Zenit from Porto in 2012 and gained the 2014-15 Russian ideal League title, when he also finished as prime scorer, and the 2016 Russian Cup. He scored seventy seven objectives in 147 video games for the membership.
CSL clubs are constrained to five international gamers of their squad, with one of the most 5 having to keep a passport belonging to an Asian soccer Confederation nation. They're permitted to discipline three foreigners and one AFC participant on the pitch at any person time.
Shanghai SIPG, managed by way of Sven-Goran Eriksson, presently have five foreigners in the squad, with Asamoah Gyan, Elkeson, Jean Evrard Kouassi, Dario Conca and Kim Ju-Yung on their books. That implies Eriksson will have got to offload one among his international gamers.
The CSL has attracted a couple of significant names in latest months, with Liverpool goal Alex Teixeira opting to maneuver to China from Shakhtar Donetsk in a €50 million deal in February. Roma's Gervinho, Jackson Martinez of Atletico Madrid and Chelsea midfielder Ramires have moved to China too. Demba Ba and Argentina global Ezequiel Lavezzi are additionally now playing in the league.