While the Mexican champions do not want to sell the Frenchman, it's clear that he would be an ideal player for the big-spending Chinese Super League.
We may never know how many Tigres fans flipped open Twitter during their lunch break Tuesday and had a panic attack. "#GraciasGignac" was trending in Monterrey — but it was in the top terms not because forward Andre-Pierre Gignac actually is bidding farewell to Tigres, but because fans of the club's crosstown rival, the Rayados de Monterrey, decided to have a little fun.
Their jokes didn't come out of nowhere. Early Tuesday, Tigres president Alejandro Rodriguez told Cancha that the team's sporting director was expecting an offer from a Chinese team that was yet to arrive.