Hypocrisy and Underage Players

This week's furor over Manchester United "stealing" Le Havre's Paul Pogba shows, to me, the deeply conflicted ethical issues at play regarding underage players in today's soccer world.

The player here, Paul Pogba, is a very highly rated 16 year old who plays for Le Havre. According to Le Havre, Man U have offered his family money/employment for him to end a contract he has signed with the French club.

Read the full article at Soccer Statistics.

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