Here's a list of others that weren't mentioned: - Renato Augusto - Mascherano (Retired) - Fredy Guarin - Aaron Mooy - Ricardo Goulart (Probs the biggest name Chinese Nationalised) - Nicolae Stanciu (Still there now) - Fran Merida (Still there now) - Fernando Henrique - Alan Carvalho - Stephane Mbia (Played for Sevilla) - Christian Bassogog - Frank Acheampong - Emmanuel Boateng - Boubacar Diarra (Freiburg legend) - Mohamed Sissoko (Used to play for PSG) - Abderrazak Hamdallah (went to the semis in the WC with Morrocco) - Obafemi Martins - John Obi Mikel (the former Chelsea guy who went to Stoke) - Papiss Cisse (also played for Newcastle) - Kim Min Jae (one of the few players to have progressed from China elsewhere) - Sejad Salihovic (Hoffenheim legend) - Mousa Dembele - Mislav Orsic (went from beating massive clubs like Guangzhou Evergrande to small clubs like Tottenham and Chelsea) - Romain Allesandrini - Tamas Kadar (he also used to play for Newcastle) - Eder (Italian one who played for Inter Milan) - Adrian Mierzejewski (still there now) - Ricardo Carvalho - Daniel Carrico - Nemanja Gudelj (Serbia have good connections with China btw) - Ruben Castro - Jonathan Viera (Las Palmas legend) - Tomas Pina (just signed) - Sam Larsson (He is not the son of Sebastian Larsson) - Augusto Fernández (Another former Atletico Madrid player) - Jô - Leo Baptistao - Miranda (underrated centre back btw) And last and probably least: Solomon Rondon Lmk if I missed anyone else but these are other big names that went to China tbh

Congratulations to your beloved Hull City for your surprising victory over Cardiff City at home by 1-0 yesterday to move to twelth with forty points in the English Championship standings!!!:-D

Jackson Martinez was a beast at porto

Fantastic timing, dog walk in the morning is 10x better with a new HITC video 😂❤️

And Aaron Mooy who left to china instead of staying the Prem for Brighton(who I believe wanted to keep him) and now is playing at Celtic and playing well.

Aaron Mooy is having an excellent season at Celtic - a very shrewd piece of business by Ange Postecoglou 🍀

Great vid brother. well structured, very informative. Maybe do some of the other leagues like A league in AUS (highest paid, biggest names etc etc. be good to learn bit more about all the diff leagues.

Hi Alfie, I've been a keen follower of your videos for a while now. And I have an idea for you. 7 average footballers who were signed following incredible international tournaments: Such as el hadji diouf to Liverpool in 2002

Stephan El Shaarawy could have been one of the best in Europe had he not suffered many injuries. He had the potential and is still a decent footballer, but he could have been so much more.

And the UK government says Chinese Super League deserves more points for work permits than J League/K League? What a joke.

delighted to see this

About Jackson Martinez, he did in fact retired already. But right now he's training with his childhood team independente Medellin. He could make a comeback professional football, and I surely hope so

Day 5: 7 best premiere league players who never won PL player of the season

Is it worth doing one of your short documentaries on Raków Częstochowa? As an Englishman I'm intrigued how they were founded 101 years ago, have never looked like winning the league yet have finished 2nd in recent seasons and are currently top of the league, running away with it with over half the season gone. Like where have they come from and how are they ahead of the likes of Poznan, Legia, Lodz, etc

Just subscribed as seen you support the mighty tigers in the comments... West Hull born and raised!

You forgot Fredy Guarin!

Another masterclass, Alfie! Still waiting on that sub-Saharan Africa club Best XI!!

Well, this issue is not limited to only China, but football across Asia usually sees authoritarian states or incompetent federations weaponising their financial muscles at the fullest, unless being sanctioned or isolated like North Korea and Iran, or too corrupt like Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Just in 2022 alone, Saudi clubs spent more than 800 million dollars to buy lavish football superstars. Qatar and the UAE also buy ton of superstars for their own greed of popularity and short-lived fame. In Thailand, under the authoritarian junta, the Thais sought to accelerate their bids for big names buying, betraying the previous pillar of youth development of former FAT President Worawi Makudi. In Kazakhstan, an Asian member with UEFA membership, the country spends very little money on improving footballers but rather trying to make propaganda about their UEFA benefit despite inability to produce world class footballers. And many more cases in Asia, from Uzbekistan, Kuwait, Vietnam, Indonesia, for examples. China just helped us to see how mismanaged is Asian football. Ironically, the only successful Asian football nations are the ones who spend less on lavish buying. Japan and South Korea are examples of how they spend less on buying football stars but successfully strengthened their football clubs and teams. Australia, which has AFC membership, may also be counted, though football is the only fourth largest sport in Australia and has only built a football culture for 20 years. Yet they were the ones to reach the round of sixteen in World Cup and not the lavishly spending and arrogant Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Witsel actually had his best years for Dortmund in the Bundesliga

A video about your take on Liverpool's situation would be interesting

Respect to all these boys, got the bag and dipped.

still remembering the heat map of Carrasco's very first CSL game was hilarious🤣

"Very Spurs-y" As a mild Spurs fan, I felt that

Paulinho has 56 brazil caps but Anderson Talisca has none lmao thats wild

Video suggestion: 7 countries where only one club is dominant (or something like that), such as Al Ahly SC in Egypt, Sheriff Tiraspol in Moldova, etc.

Another good day for us Hull City fans yesterday, what’s your opinion on Rosenior? I was sceptical when he was first announced but the lad has done well

CSL in 2018: This league is ridiculous, it's quite literally stealing some of the biggest names from Europe and it could be worse in the coming decade. Heck, they're even starting to add some of the uncapped players to the Chinese national team. CSL in 2023: The league is on the verge of collapse, the biggest names have left, Oscar wants to leave, Fellaini is still there for some odd reason and China lost to Vietnam.

Do a video of 7 best Traores or 7 best Fernandezs

Chelsea 2016/17 prem winners where are they now

Hulk gets a mention in consecutive videos

I’m noticing a lot of overlap with the list of players who always followed the money, interesting

Hey Alfie, I'm a big fan of your stuff! I've got a video idea but it's more of a question really. Cristiano Ronaldo has left every club he has played for in a worse league standing than he found them in his first season there. His leaving has always coincided with the strikers around him performing better. Yet he's clearly incredibly talented. To what extent is it fair to judge him? By what metric is he a good player if he doesn't really contribute to a teams success?

Portugal was a Top 5 League when Talisca played for Benfica.

Guanzhou selling Paulinho to Barca was a very shady business

Don't mind that Corinthians kit

Jackson Martinez narrative is completely wrong. He had an almost career ending ankle injury in November being away for only 9 games and comes January they sold him because he couldn't perform. Later, reports come out saying that he was mistreated and misdiagnosed. When he went to china he ended up getting injured another ankle injury that ended up his career at a top level

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

I sense a theme here: Players either move to South America or to Saudi Arabia. Wonder if we'll see a similar video in a few years about the Saudi league.

Man let Oscar go he can still have a decent career left

Every Major MLS signing!! Or the top 7 Middle East signings!

A Ceres Negros FC player in the background of Modeste

Maybe you could have added Napoli’s monster defender eho they signed from Fenerbahce and made an huge impact both serie A and champions league Kim Min-Jae. He was at beijing guoan just two years ago.

😅😅😅😅 18:03 yeah we said No cos we were in the same group with Suarez’s Uruguay 🇺🇾 😂😂😂😂😂😂

“Genuinely last in all senses” 😂

i dont get it, id salaries are capped to 50k a week why is oscar still there?

is the possessive of Martinez "Martinez's" ? it sounds kinda funny tbh

Meanwhile, in Ireland, our football is still on the development that we have been forced to let our players to play in England. I wonder when will Alfie make a video about best Irish footballers who did not play in England throughout their career.

Glad to see a KZfaqr admitting a 38 minute video on this format is a documentary 0:37. 21 minutes is a bit long but as it’s a Sunday I found the time. Well done! (Stop at 14:00 next time, maybe?)

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 455) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

China is starting to collapse, literally because they placed 9th in AFC Coefficients. The 2024-2025 season is going to be the first season the Chinese League provided 3 teams for ACL and AFC Cup.

lol, i had always read you channel name as "HITC Stevens", so thanks for the correction! 🤦‍♂

You mean the papers linked Manchester United with Carrasco. Absolutely not an EtH type player.

Jonathan Viera as well

Don’t forget Sandro Wagner who Scores 10 g/a in 14 Games for Bayern Munich before joining Tianjin Jinmen Tiger

Anchor 😆😆😆! The other word may well have applied, in that case. Happy for Tim Cahill getting his big payday, being from down near here

This is quite a sad state for the Chinese football with the Chinese Super League on a verge of collapsing due to mainly some of their greedy ownerships to sign far too much of a money on some star players and signing some dodgy sponsorships on their own only to owe huge sums of money with some of the companies which they have been associating with for years,good friends!!!Nevertheless,some of the respective players who are in the list became quite a successful player in the league and hope they can get their momentum going till their rest of their respective careers,good friends!!!🙏

Money money money that’s all some footballers see

What about Renato Augusto?

Alfie, you should play at Nostradamus and do a video predicting the next 7-YEARS of the English game and 70-YEARS of the world game using such failed leagues, extinct clubs, and the ongoing corruption of football across all levels and institutions to see what conclusions you arrive at, the predictions taking on a parody and satire of the present and past state of football. Personally, my predictions for the next 7-years of the English pyramid will see the consolidation of minor clubs and cities within the Premiership as reform within England sees the game receive its first top level revision in over 150-years as lessons from VAR and such other technologies evolve the game to its highest ever level to the present ahead of eSports explosive growth within football alongside the classic game and its many variations establishing further links between communities and clubs truly making the beautiful game a global carnival/circus for the ages. Globally, African and Asian World Cup winners coming in the next few decades without a doubt, and possibly a North American nation winning it, too will mean that with virtually all continents being Champions and Australia knocking on that same door, inside 70-years the European financial monopoly will be a distant and embarrassing memory as the integrity of the game is won back along its credibility from the clutches of capitalism and is returned to the people as once giants and unknowns compete consistently elevating the game everywhere. Brazil and Italy will win more cups, too, with France still favorites to the become the de factor world factory of footballers as they have too great a head start on everyone else NOT TO dominate for the next three, maybe more decades, and while they won’t win everything, we will probably get tired of seeing France in the top 3/4 with the sort of consistency that sees Mbappe collect Ballon D’Ors followed by more French nationals over the next two decades in Messi and Ronaldo-saque fashion. Oh, and City and PSG might NOT win the European Cup neither with Napoli going on to win the next 5 matching Madrid’s early years dominance. lol

8:07 who is the guy in the background. looks just like Lautaro

Morning

This guy speaks in 0.75x

Tim Cahills a fucking icon over here, grew up with nothing and overcame a lot. Good on him for exploiting the Qataris and taking as much from them as he can, deserves it. Would never normally comment like this, but can only take so many unwarranted cracks at my literal childhood hero hahaha

You forgot Carrasco

the way you talk ill have a grandchild before the vid ends

A lot of these are south americans and portugese going at a fairly young age, cashing in a heap and going back to the club/country where they played or are born at a late age, smart if u ask me

Day 389: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.

Oscar torpedoed his career moving to China

I miss the Chinese super league 😞

The video sounded interesting but I honestly couldn’t take the fella who was talking

You should really do time stamps in these since you ramble so much and stretch the videos out.

18 hours a day working on videos? Watch out for that life/work balance Alfie.

Is it true that HITC stands for Hi I’m Twinkle Cat?

Came in at 19 mins

Where was frank acheampong

The Carrasco sale and resigning might be money laundering 😅

Mason Greenwood still wants to go to China

Just goes to show you can throw all the money in the world, but means nothing without a proper football culture.

Alfie, i really hope and wish you will make some videos about women's football especially England Lionesses.

Where is freddy guarin

This man talks, I think I'm going to miss my train. Why is he so slow???

Christiano Ronaldo will be the next great signing for chinese super league

Javier mascherano

Only Alfie will randomly pronounce Teixeira properly and butcher everything else lmao. No way Teixeira is the easiest name out of all the players and teams you've mentioned.

Crazy how big of a downfall CSL has had

I jst cant understand hulk decisions

Shocked WW2 and the Nazis weren't shoehorned into yet another video.

FREDY Guarin???

Chinese Super League collapse was seen since they started signing so many players for all that money lol.

2:38 so called golden generation, lmaoo

China has the money and resources to keep any players of their choice maybe they want to focus on building their local players

Stop calling your videos documentary. Love documentary produced.

Why does this man talk like that ?

First!

18th comment

Do this with the Saudi league just for shits and giggles

Lol

Stephan El Shaarawy been around since forever , dont really think his that good either

brazilian DNA lmao

Im coming here bcoz of saudi pro league... 😂😂😂... This two league is for player that has to settle thier dept or bankruptcy...