Yeah right, I'm sure Swansea are just making money hand over fist in Korea right now.
yup it's a common and quite frankly patronising misconception. Also very rude when idiots like big Sam say it's pretty much the reason for signing Nakata while he was sitting at his press conference.. As someone who is very much into Japanese culture including football, this perception of asians only being good for shirt sales is nonsense. Due to a large number of asians in Europe it's much less of a case now, very different when there was only a couple. Germany has really tapped into the Japanese market and there is some very good talent there, I'd like Villa to do the same.....anyway, Ki is a cracking player but a racist clearing in the woods. Been in trouble a few times for comments made towards the japanese.