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Chelsea have reportedly turned down offers for Oscar from Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning. Reuters/John Sibley

Chelsea has reportedly turned down China’s big-money offer to Oscar as the Chinese Super League continues to lure international players to play for the country’s growing football competition.

The winter transfer window may be over for the English Premier League clubs, but China is just getting started to pile-up top footballers around the globe, with their latest target Chelsea’s attacking midfielder Oscar.

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According to The Sun, the Pensioners declined a £57.5 million (AU$116.3 million) bid for Oscar from big-spending CSL club Jiangsu Suning, who are also responsible in signing Ramires to a staggering £25 million (AU$50.5 million) fee. But despite the failed attempt from Jiangsu to bring another Chelsea player into their stable, the Chinese club vows to get back in negotiations with the Brazilian international when the summer transfer window opens.

Oscar was not the only one Jiangsu considered to acquire. Liverpool target Alex Teixeira becomes the latest to join the growing list of international footballers in the Chinese club after Shakhtar Donetsk manager Mircea Lucescu confirmed to ESPN Brazil about the transfer. Lucescu revealed that the Ukrainian club, who pays in their own version of the Premier League, accepted a transfer fee of €50 million (AU$77.7 million) to send the Brazilian international to Jiangsu.

“We have agreed to sell Alex Teixeira to China,” Lucescu said. “We will wait a little to finalise it due to what happened with Luiz Adriano. But it’s all confirmed on our side.”

Meanwhile, China’s hefty offers to swoop international players continue to shock the football world, but the trend of players joining the Chinese football league has not been a surprise as of late, with more deals still expected to pour.

According to transfermarkt, which tracks all the sports’ commercial deals, China has spent £197.2 million (AU$398.9 million) already just half way through their Feb. 26 deadline. They are second behind the Premier League’s £228.81 million (AU$462.8 million) spending in the window transfer, but are poised to eclipse EPL’s record at the end of the month.