As the main center of the Chinese national football team, the 33-year-old "naturalized player" Axon is still unemployed at home. After the scandal with a number of Bajia clubs, Axon still has not finalized his next home. According to the Brazilian media "Football Market", Axon has not found a new job because of excessive salary requirements, which may also become the biggest obstacle on his future transfer path.
The report pointed out that Axon was once very close to his old club Botafogo. Before going to the Chinese Super League, Axon had a good time in Botafogo, and this season Botafogo rushed into the Baliga as the champions of the Brazilian Second League, if Axon returns, it can be described as a "match made in heaven". However, the seemingly perfect deal was brought to a halt by Axon's excessive demands on salaries.
Football Market said Axon wanted his salary standards at the new club to be as close as possible to those he had played in the Chinese Super League. Because of this, he eventually turned down Botafogo's offer because the contract was too far from his expectations. At the same time, the agent tried to sell Ekson to Gremio, also because Gremio was able to offer a higher salary than Botafogo.
I have to say that Axon's idea is very unrealistic and ridiculous. When he joined Guangzhou Evergrande in 2013, Axon's annual salary was about 3 million euros, and later renewed his salary to 6 million euros; in 2016, Axon joined Shanghai SIPG, with an annual salary of 8 million euros; in 2019, he returned to Evergrande, because of the change of nationality, Axon's annual salary also rose again, reaching 10 million euros.
It can be said that even with Axon's minimum annual salary of 3 million euros when he played in the Chinese Super League, no Brazilian club would be willing to "take over" for him. After all, Axon is 33 years old and has been playing in the Chinese Super League for nearly a decade, and the current level of competition is unknown, and because of the nationality problem, it is almost impossible to occupy a foreign aid quota, and it is almost impossible to get a high-paying contract during the "stay in the West".
Perhaps it was because he always enjoyed superstar treatment when playing in the Chinese Super League that Axon had some illusions about his position in Brazil. However, with big Brazilian clubs such as Corinthians, Santos and Fluminense withdrawing from the negotiations, there are really not many opportunities for Axon to "make a lot of money".