Originally posted by perspolis#1
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If you sign a Japanese player, it is very likely Japanese TV will buy your club's tv matches.
Most clubs can only survive on TV rights money.
Added incentive.
If you're a European club and you need to go through all sorts of headache, pay a decent amount of money (same as what a local might want), with no business tie-in, it becomes really hard to justify.
Sometimes it works out though. For example, in Mehdi's case, because he was based in Qatar, the money transfer was easy and he also took a huge paycut!
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