Thursday, 9 April 2009

The last summer of youth?

Lazio have accused Manchester United of 'buying' the parents of Federico Macheda in order to secure the player's services. United allegedly offered Macheda's parents jobs worth millions of pounds in order to get him to sign for the club thereby circumventing FIFA laws relating to the transfer of teenagers across international boundaries. From 1st October 2009, FIFA will be tightening their laws to prevent such practices leading one to ask: will the summer of 2009 be remembered for the mass migration across Europe (and indeed from across the rest of the world) of teenage footballers and their parents? As such, can we therefore expect to see a very different summer of transfer activity than we do normally?

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