The world's highest paid player Carlos Tevez and Shanghai Shenhua endured a nightmare start to the 2017 season, Gustavo Poyet's side crashing out of the AFC Champions League before it has properly even begun.
They went down 2-0 to Australia's Brisbane Roar in their qualification game in front of a disappointed home crowd at the Hongkou Stadium Wednesday night.
Tevez joined the Chinese Super League side from Boca Juniors amid huge fanfare, due to a contract reportedly worth GBP32 million a year - or a pound a second.
But first-half goals from Brandon Borrello and Tommy Oar saw Brisbane Roar advance to the group stages at the big spenders expense, and leave Shenhua to focus on... making it into next year's AFC Champions League?
Shanghai do have a representative in the AFC Champions League group stages though, with SIPG beating Sukhothai of Thailand 3-0 at the Shanghai Stadium on Tuesday night, GBP60 million signing Oscar opening the scoring in that one.
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