Ramires has admitted that money
weighed in on his decision to leave
Chelsea for the Chinese Super League. The 29-year-old left Stamford
Bridge to join
Jiangsu Suning in a £25million deal in January
this year, having become unhappy at losing
his place under Guus Hiddink. "I see a lot of people saying that I came to
China just for the money, but that's not
true," he told Goal. "If you look at the situation I was going
through at Chelsea at the time of the transfer
you will see that I was Hiddink's last option
in my position and this was frustrating me a
lot. "The situation was only getting worse and
at that moment came the interest of the
Chinese club. Jiangsu introduced me to a long-
term project where I would be a key player,
they offered me everything I could think of
and more, and I decided together with my agent and family that this
would be the best
decision. "The money issue weighed on the decision,
I put it on the scale that I am already 29
years old and that an irrefutable opportunity
like this may never come again. But the way
things were happening at Chelsea was the
main reason." Ramires, who spent six years at Chelsea and
worked under six different managers, picked
Andres Villas-Boas as the best coach he has
worked with. Villas-Boas currently managers Chinese
Super League rivals, Shanghai SIPG. "I had the pleasure of working with great
coaches during my career, but I identified
most with Andre Villas-Boas," he added. "We got along really well and
it was great
to work with him, he's a guy of enormous
ability and intelligence."
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