I must been mellowing in my old age as (for once) I have to agree 100% with UEFA and FIFA in their recent stance about (big) clubs poaching young players from other (smaller) clubs.
I don't care if these big clubs are called Chelsea or Man United or Toorichtocare FC. Chelsea have been found guilty of inducing a young French player to breach his contract with Lens (his French club) and sign for them instead. The same fate may happen to Man Utd. for a similar incident.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg - Manyoo have been at it for years. It's very nice and righteous for Fergie to complain about Real madrid making illegal approaches for Cristiano Ronaldo when his own club has been ransacking the best talent in youth teams all over Europe and Africa.
Tapping players up.... inducing them to breach their contract.... exploiting loopholes in local laws to their advantage.... all sides of the same coin. It's just unfair and it must be stopped now. Now if clubs can adhere to some self-discipline, fine, otherwise I personally welcome UEFA's and FIFA's intervention to stamp out this unfair/unlawful practises that stink of bullyism and colonialism.
I don't care if these big clubs are called Chelsea or Man United or Toorichtocare FC. Chelsea have been found guilty of inducing a young French player to breach his contract with Lens (his French club) and sign for them instead. The same fate may happen to Man Utd. for a similar incident.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg - Manyoo have been at it for years. It's very nice and righteous for Fergie to complain about Real madrid making illegal approaches for Cristiano Ronaldo when his own club has been ransacking the best talent in youth teams all over Europe and Africa.
Tapping players up.... inducing them to breach their contract.... exploiting loopholes in local laws to their advantage.... all sides of the same coin. It's just unfair and it must be stopped now. Now if clubs can adhere to some self-discipline, fine, otherwise I personally welcome UEFA's and FIFA's intervention to stamp out this unfair/unlawful practises that stink of bullyism and colonialism.
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