The difference between this and selling clubs is that the selling clubs and the player’s interest align far more than this model (what I understand seems to be, and I may be mistaken)of :

snapping up cheap talents and sending promising players between horribly managed clubs you have connection with for a cheap buck with no regard for long term values of anyone.

That’s how he made money

I remember Jonathan Calleri also “played” for a third party club, Deportivo Maldonado. Wasn’t Mascherano also once owned by a third party company while he was at West Ham? And how much “slave trading” is going on with African players now, that forced Silas to even change his name? I like football the sport, but increasingly I’m finding it hard to ignore these absolutely horrifying treatment of humans that is hidden behind all the spectacle