I rember Joseph Minala! Whenever I saw his picture I could not believe what I saw! You are right, there are many cases like this and many "talents" are using this method to get a living. I think it is taking away spaces from actual talents in the European countries but then on the other hand no African player would be signed. Saying that, I think people should get signed depending on their performance and not on their potential which is often being done in football nowadays. I think under this point of view the actual age of players should not matter. Someone said once: "There is no young or old, there is only good or bad"