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BY WILLIAM HENNELLY The Chinese Super League is finding that you win some and lose some when it comes to landing the world's top football players. Carlos Tevez, an Argentine national team star currently with club team Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, is about to become the highest-paid player in the world. According to media reports, Tevez, 32, will be paid more than $762,000 a week in a two-year contract with CSL side Shanghai Shenhua, which he is expected to sign next week. The deal adds up to $75 million over two seasons. Tevez played his last game for Boca on Sunday as fans begged him to stay with signs saying, No te vayas, Carlitos. Tevez had appeared content to finish his career at Boca Juniors until the CSL came calling with sacks of money. Yes, many great players will head to where the pitches are greener - and there are none greener than in China now. (Chelsea star Oscar from Brazil is headed to Shanghai SIPG in a $64 million deal reported on Friday.) But striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Manchester United in the Barclays Premier League has reportedly turned down a £120 million (about $149 million) deal from the CSL to stay in England. Manchester United has confirmed it will offer another year to Ibrahimovic, according to the Daily Mail of London. The Premier League is generally considered the world's best, if not always in Champions League play but in prestige, and although the CSL continues to peel away some world-class talent, some players prefer competing against the top players. | 
