Complex sentence: Runners-up Shanghai International were also surrounded in their own match-fixing controversy, which saw several of their players taking bribes, however despite the club itself not being implicated in these crimes the season's title was not awarded to any club.
Split into simpler sentences: Runners-up Shanghai International were also surrounded in their own match-fixing controversy, which saw several of their players taking bribes. Despite the club itself not being implicated in these crimes the season's title was not awarded to any club.