Overpaid Football - Ethical?

Football, also known as soccer, is considered to be the most popular team sport in the

world. The roots of football as a game go back to Ancient Greece but the football clubs

as they're known today grew up from Great Britain in 18th century. Since then the

football clubs have grown by developing young players from their youth academies,

building and expanding the stadiums and also by buying talented players from other

clubs. The last case of buying players, percicely with huge amouunts of money, has

become a very popular habit specially in around last ten years. That's mainly because of

extremely rich people who have become the owners of world's football clubs. Probably

the best known examples are Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich with Chelsea FC

(Football Club), United Arab Emirati Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan with

Manchester City FC and Spanish businessman Florentino Perez with Real Madrid FC.

Surrounding this has risen a lot of questions and issues if this kind of behavior where

clubs just buy (irrespective to the price) themselves the best players and coaches to win

the titles is actually ethical. Smaller clubs which are not that rich and concentrate on

developing their team from young talents through hard work are just outbought with

money and treated unfairly. There have been cases where in the football game between

two teams one player's value of one team is higher than the other team's players' value

altogether. Is it right and ethical so it could be left this way or should it be regulated in

some way by greater authorities?

This paper concentrates on analysing this kind of situation using the ethical approaches,

such as teleological and deontological. The analyze is also supported by different facts

and by my (author's) own opinion. All the materials used for this paper are referred to

in the end.

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