TUCSON, Ariz. — The most newsworthy part of the interview with Seattle Sounders forward Nelson Valdez on Tuesday evening at the team hotel was when he let slip that his agent had approached him with interest from China during this offseason.
The Chinese league splashing serious cash on foreign talent — see: Brazilian attacker Alex Teixiera to Jiangsu Suning for more than 50 million Euros — has been the talk over the soccer world over the past month and change. But to hear Valdez tell it, he dismissed the interest out-of-hand.
“I said I didn’t want to know nothing,” Valdez said.