I think what needs to happen is that the compensation given to the club where the player is poached from is representative of the talent and potential of the player in question. At the moment, the compensation is quite honestly, pitiful, and as such it's almost a non-issue when a big club signs a 16 year old wonderkid.
What should also happen, is that the club where the player has been poached from should be granted a sell-on percentage as part of the compensation - perhaps as high as 40-50%.
You do realise there are millions of 16yr old kids around trying to become professional footballers, they cost smeg all to train to that level, with a basic low paid coach with dozens of kids each around the world. They aren't paying the kids much and thats why transfer fee's are low. Dozen's, it not hundreds of 16yr old "wonderkids" go on to become useless footballers. However they might be taken off a club for 50k, but the club that takes them has them on much bigger contracts, when they hit 17years old they could be making 5k a week, instead of £50. Most big clubs will have 20 wonderkids, all making 5k a week, and they'll be lucky if 2 in every 20 make it to the first team. If they do get sold on, they'll have paid said player maybe 10's of millions which is why they look to recoup money from the transfer.
Say if we sold on Fabregas for £30mil, we've probabably paid him anywhere from 10-20million since he got to Arsenal, Barca probably paid him anywhere from 2-20k while he was there, so that means Barca should automatically get £15million back out of the transfer?
WHen you factor in the fact that even the players that make it to professional contracts we would have paid 50mil in wages to 20 kids over 5-6 years with a couple of them making it to "star" wages like Fabregas, the rest will leave the club on free transfers or just covering the cost of their wages if lucky.
Quite often players like Fabregas will end up in tribunal and the other club will get anything from 25-500k, which in most cases will still be a profit. People aren't dumping millions into kids under 16, the idea they should be worth a lot is ridiculous.
The transfer system is fine as it is.
AS to other people who are suggesting alternate punishments like limiting numbers of foreign players in the CL, its just ridiculous, as it wouldn't be an even punishment across the board to various teams.
The fact is Chelsea should never have gotten a ban, full stop, a kid wanted to leave his job and go to another one, thats life, thats perfectly league in any other profession in the world, live with it. No ones a slave and no one should have to work where they don't want it, its pretty much that simple.
The main thing is, Le Harve are HOPING this kid will be worth a 20mil transfer in 10 years time, but he could easily be worth nothing and leave them losing him on a free after sinking 15mil in wages on the kid. WE're treating these kids like money in the bank when they aren't.
