23 June 2015 From the section Scotland politics Children's Commissioner Tam Baillie wants more rights for young footballers MSPs have been told that footballers as young as 10 are being held hostage by clubs with "contracts" that may not be worth the paper they are written on. Children's Commissioner Tam Baillie made his claim to members of Holyrood's public petitions committee. He wants children to have rights and the freedom to move clubs more easily. Mr Baillie claimed some clubs requested payments from rivals for children who had come through their academies but failed to reach an agreement. If the young person chooses to get out of that 'contract' they are sometimes left as a hostage to...
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