According to the latest news from UOL, a well-known Brazilian media, Chinese naturalized player Axon has signed a contract with Brazilian giants Gremio. Axon will play for the team for a year on a free transfer basis, which is also Axon's return to Brazilian football after a decade, and his re-entry after leaving Guangzhou Evergrande nearly five months later.
The report pointed out that Gremio and Ikeson have signed a one-year contract with the two sides, which expires after the end of the league season. After that, depending on Axon's specific performance, it is possible to renew the signing for another year. Brazilian media revealed that the reason for giving Axon such a short contract, Gremio is mainly concerned about the player's physical condition. Although Axon is not small in Brazil, after all, he has not trained and competed systematically for a long time, and Gremio will make a special plan for him to restore the status of the game.
Considering the Brazilian transfer window will close in less than two weeks, the time left for Axon to find a new team is already short. In such a situation, it is also a good choice to be able to "quickly" finalize the joining Gremio. Although Gremio was unexpectedly relegated from the First Division to the Second League last season, regardless of the financial situation or the strength of the squad, it is still a giant in Brazil, and the goal of the new season is undoubtedly to upgrade, and Axon has a place to play.
Of course, signing Gremio means that Axon has completely given up the idea of returning to the Chinese Super League. With the current investment of chinese super clubs, it is obvious that it can no longer provide Axon with a huge annual salary of tens of millions of euros, so it is not attractive. Theoretically, as a Chinese player, Axon joining Gremio is equivalent to the national football team having another active international who stays in the country; but this is just a self-deceptive idea, with the connection with Chinese football being completely cut off, Axon, who returned to Brazil to play, is equivalent to having automatically withdrawn from the national team, and the probability of continuing to see him in the national football team in the future is already equal to 0.