"China goes to be leading in the next years, and if they want that his league was taken seriously have to have the necessary foundations. The arbitration is a fundamental part of the football", said recently the considered like one of the best referees of the world, Mark Clattenburg. The British referee is being tempted by the Superliga Chinese to go to arbitrate to the Asian championship.
And this does not do him disgusts to cross half world by a good sum of millions, the same that did in the last months footballers like Carlos Tévez, Oscar, Jackson Martínez, Ezequiel Lavezzi or Renato Augusto. His signing would be another hit mediático for a competition to which many already begin to take seriously, like the own judge.
"China is looking for to develop his football, doing with the best players and names", sustained in this regard Clattenburg, that carries from 2004 arbitrating in the Premier League. "Although have agreement with the Premier, if it arrived an opportunity would have to think in my career on a long-term basis. How much can last like referee? I carry in the English league 12 years; 12 wonderful years", confirmed leaving the door entreabierta to the Chineses.
Without offers but sabedor that the Superliga Chinese wants him
By what does to the informations that speak that already they would have arrived him offers, he commissioned to deny them. "I have not received any offer, but if it arrived would study it. Although for the moment still I am enjoying in the Premier League and in the UEFA", aimed.
"The money never has been my priority like referee... It is the will to do something different, help to the growth there. It is important that the quality of the arbitration was similar to the level of the football", concluded in this regard.