{"id":14563,"date":"2017-07-07T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/2017\/07\/07\/crystal-palace-defender-linked-with-shock-china-move-as-future-under-frank-de-boer-remains-unclear\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T13:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:42:32","slug":"crystal-palace-defender-linked-with-shock-china-move-as-future-under-frank-de-boer-remains-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=14563","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace Defender Linked With Shock China Move as Future Under Frank de Boer Remains Unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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?Scott Dann could become the first prominent English player to move to the Chinese Super League, as his Crystal Palace future remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Dann, a classically-styled English centre-back, is yet to find out whether he has a future under new Eagles manager Frank de Boer, who has already spoken of his desire to spend big in the transfer market and style the team around former club Ajax.<\/p>\n

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?The Daily Mail\u00a0claim\u00a0Beijing Guoan the Chinese club who have expressed an interest in\u00a0signing Dann, who made 23 Premier League appearances during the 2016\/17 season, scoring three goals and contributing an assist as Palace finished 14th.<\/inline><\/p>\n

Former Chelsea duo Oscar and Ramires have made recent moves to China, while players who previously played in Europe like Paulinho, Hulk and A<\/inline>lex Teixeira also ply their trade in Asia’s most lucrative football league.<\/inline><\/p>\n

The only Englishman who has played in China is\u00a0former Port Vale and Sheffield Wednesday striker Akpo Sodje, who turned out for\u00a0<\/inline>Tianjin Teda and made 10 Chinese Super League appearances in 2012, scoring once.<\/p>\n

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Dann is concerned his playing opportunities could diminish under new manager De Boer, who had a brief spell at Inter Milan in 2016, and is believed to be open to a move to China despite<\/p>\n

spending being curtailed\u00a0by a new rule where teams have to pay 100 per cent tax on overseas signings.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old established himself at Birmingham and Blackburn Rovers before making the switch to Palace in 2014, signing a new contract at Selhurst Park the following year amid interest from Everton.<\/p>\n

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?Scott Dann could become the first prominent English player to move to the Chinese Super League, as his Crystal Palace future remains unclear. Dann, a classically-styled English centre-back, is yet to find out whether he has a future under new Eagles manager Frank de Boer, who has already spoken of his desire to spend big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crystal-palace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}