i asked seven and he said it would never happen in Belgium
It happened from the beginning of the 90ties when i started watching football, untill early 2000 when i couldnt bother watching it anymore.
But it was mostly club brugge and anderlecht who did this.
Times under Vanhove and Verschueren,transfers between belgian teams and club brugge/anderlecht, often resulted in him getting purchased out of his contract in the last year.
I suppose they dont do this anymore nowadays
Well the English are hardly going to agree to stop doing something that is highly beneficial to them.
It's certainly something that should be looked at by UEFA, though, along with ensuring proper compensation is paid to a club who developed a young player - rather than the pittance they get just now.
Its the eufa's task to create a rule that says, that if you want to buy foreign european talent, that the age you can give the player a contract, is depending on both your own country, and his country.
make it so that united cant offer a player a contract, before his own club can