Football Soccer - Zenit training - Champions League - Luz, Lisbon, Portugal - 15 /02/16 Zenit's Hulk attends a training session. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Zenit St Petersburg's Brazilian forward Hulk is close to joining Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG in a deal worth around 56 million euros (46.41 million pounds), the Russian club said on Tuesday.
The deal could break the Asian transfer record of 50 million euros that Jiangsu Suning paid Shakhtar Donetsk for Brazilian midfielder Alex Teixeira in February.
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