With concrete offers on the table from Europe, Japan, China, Korea Republic and the Middle East, the 13-goal striker is at the crossroads at a club he has helped propel to third on the A-League ladder behind Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC going into the final round of the regular season. Phoenix, which rejected a $1.2 million offer for Women FC247 Elastico Finale III Burns from Shanghai Shenhua during January's AFC Asian Cup 2015, now faces losing its prize asset for barely a third of that amount with several clubs willing to pay the estimated $350,000 which would trigger his exit. Fellow Socceroo Tim Cahill subsequently signed instead for the Chinese Super League Shenhua in a one-year deal which will earn him approximately $6 million. A revelation in his first year back in the competition he left in 2008 for AEK Athens and then K-League club Incheon United, Burns, 26, has turned heads for club and country and is only behind Sydney FC's marquee striker Marc Janko (16) in the race for the Golden Boot. A Phoenix team-mate confirmed that Burns, who this season was Wellington’s highest-paid player within the salary cap, would only seriously consider remaining at the club if he is afforded international marquee stature. Previous A-League marquees have earned in the region of $1 million-plus per season, which gives Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick - under whom Burns has thrived - and the club's board a big decision to make. Burns's previous Asian stint yielded just three appearances in two injury-hit seasons and was labelled Nike Women Mercurial Superfly the wrong move to the wrong country by critics. But he has no regrets over his spell there and would be more than willing to return to a region which he sees as an emerging powerhouse. He is also open to the Middle East while Europe would rank highest on his agenda if the right deal could be agreed. When approached to comment on Burns’s future beyond this season, his Paris-based agent Bernie Mandic would say only: "After the belting Ernie Merrick Womens Mercurial CR7 dished out to us last time do you seriously believe I am going to make any comment?" Mandic was referring to Merrick’s displeasure when reports Women Mercurial Victory V first surfaced in January of Shanghai Shenhua's interest in Burns. The two-time A-League title-winning coach claimed at the time the reports were riddled with inaccuracies on the back of misleading information from player agents.