Essay About Overpaid Football And Football Clubs

Overpaid Football – Ethical?
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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 theyre 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. Thats mainly because of
extremely rich people who have become the owners of worlds 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 players value of one team is higher than the other teams 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 (authors) own opinion. All the materials used for this paper are referred to
in the end.