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Cameron Burgess scored the winner to confirm Ipswich’s status as a Premier League club.
Socceroos veteran Tim Cahill has wasted little time finding a new club, signing for Chinese Super League side Hangzhou Greentown.
The 36-year-old was surprisingly axed by Shanghai Shenhua last week but will remain in China as originally flagged by his agent Ante Alilovic, linking with international teammate Matthew Spiranovic, who also plays for Hangzhou.
Cahill’s immediate options were limited due to the transfer window being closed in many countries, including Australia, but that didn’t stop an ugly war of words breaking out between the player and Football Federation Australia over his proclivity to an A-League stint.
The length of the new deal is not yet known but it will allow Cahill to begin playing straight away ahead of next month’s World Cup qualifiers against Tajikistan and Jordan.
If it is a short-term deal as expected, that leaves open the possibility of a move to the A-League next season.
Hangzhou finished 11th in the CSL last year and are coached by South Korean great Hong Myung-bo, considered one of the greatest Asian footballers of all time.
Cahill, who scored 11 times in 28 matches for Shanghai, had only signed a contract extension in November and was reportedly paid a $4 million termination fee by the club.
Cahill reportedly had a $5 million deal on the table from a Chinese second-tier club but turned it down as proof he is not “money hungry”, Alilovic said.
“They are offering massive money, ridiculous sums … more money than he was earning at Shanghai,” Alilovic told The World Game.
“But he doesn’t see it like that – he has turned these offers down because he doesn’t feel it would be good for his career.
“He wants to go to the next World Cup and wants to help Australia progress through the qualifying stages.
“If he was money hungry, he could have opted to go and collect his $5 million in the second division and would have told everybody to stuff themselves. That sums it all up for me.”
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