Anelka’s current contract with Chelsea is set to expire at the end of the season and the French striker could leave the club on a free transfer.
Reports claim Shenhua are prepared to pay Anelka around €10.6million-a-year.
“It is so difficult. We actually asked about Anelka,” a Shanghai Shenhua official told newspaper DF Daily.
“We also know he could leave the Blues as a Bosman player next summer but there are so many clubs interested in him
“AC Milan, Russian clubs and some Gulf clubs. If we want to sign him finally, [his contract] would cost plenty.”
