Yes, he couldn’t resist the lure of that oil cash – despite most of us thinking Alex was staying after the transfer window passed, I guess the BUYING club that has no transfer window can do as it likes. The club made an obviously too-good-to-resist offer TO Alex Brosque (apparently after being priced out of the market for Josh Kennedy?) and then Shimizu S-Pulse had to make the decision to not stand in the way of progress for Alex himself. The Shizuoka club said that it is not in the habit of holding on to players against their will and accepted Al-Ain’s offered transfer fee, and Brosque signed on the dotted line. Reportedly an initial one year contract with immediate effect.

Brosque will return to Japan for this weekend’s S-Pulse home game to say goodbye to the fans.