Is he 18 or Portuguese 18?

[Fabio]

Renato Sanches accused of lying about his age

Renato Sanches Football365
Bayern Munich new boy Renato Sanches may not be as young as people think and is actually 24 years old, according to quotes attributed to legendary French coach Guy Roux.

Portugal midfielder Sanches, who has been discovered by our ignorant scout at Euro 2016, joined the German giants earlier this summer for a €35million downpayment, though the another €45million could be paid depending on appearances and achievements with Bayern.

Doubts over his age have the teenager since he burst on to the scene, but it is only now that someone with any credence has actually backed up the claims.

Roux, who managed Auxerre over a 44-year period between 1961 and 2005, told the Spanish press the Bayern new boy may not be as young as people think.

“He says he’s 18, but I think you should look at the past,” he told AS. “His date of birth was declared years after as it was never originally indicated to the registry. I can assure you that he is 23-24 years old.”

Sanches’ birth certificate is dated August 18 1997 but As backs up Roux’s claims that this was not entered for five years due to a delay thanks to the separation of his parents.

http://www.football365.com/news/renato-sanches-accused-of-lying-about-his-age

 

[Rosco]

I would imagine this happens a lot

 

[manwithnoname]

Surely there's some kind of medical procedure that can measure bones or something to determine his real age, if required?

Or am I thinking about trees?

 

[nealmac]

Do these people think that they will never be caught? Or do they even think that far ahead? Either way, 6 years is a fucking huge discrepancy.

 

[Rosco]

Surely there's some kind of medical procedure that can measure bones or something to determine his real age, if required?

Or am I thinking about trees?

Which limb would you cut through ?

 

[manwithnoname]

Doumbia aged 24

 

[manwithnoname]

Kenyan U-12s

 

[Athens]

Surely there's some kind of medical procedure that can measure bones or something to determine his real age, if required?

Or am I thinking about trees?

They can tell from x-rays if you've stopped growing or not but I don't think there's a way of testing how old someone is.

 

[manwithnoname]

They can tell from x-rays if you've stopped growing or not but I don't think there's a way of testing how old someone is.

There must be some way. I've watched lots of telly, they're always estimating how old corpses are after being in a river for a week.

Must be easier when they're actually alive. We need a medical expert.

 

[Rosco]

Theres some bone density scan done when asylum applicants claim they are minors.

Its not perfect but can give an indication

 

[Athens]

There must be some way. I've watched lots of telly, they're always estimating how old corpses are after being in a river for a week.

Must be easier when they're actually alive. We need a medical expert.

According to this article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428644-300-with-no-paper-trail-can-science-determine-age/ there's no one sure test to determine the age of individuals.

 

[manwithnoname]

That is very surprising. We can put a man on the moon but we can't tell with any surety how old a Ugandan footballer is.

 

[Frogfish]

They can tell from x-rays if you've stopped growing or not but I don't think there's a way of testing how old someone is.

Teeth wear is a good indicator. Though whether he's 18 or 24 might be pushing that method too far.

 

[Best Believe It]

There must be some way. I've watched lots of telly, they're always estimating how old corpses are after being in a river for a week.

Must be easier when they're actually alive. We need a medical expert.

I think you can tell via cartilage. At least that's how you can tell the age of a bone from a corpse. No idea whether you can do it without cutting off part of someone.

 

[Holle]

Theres some bone density scan done when asylum applicants claim they are minors.

Its not perfect but can give an indication

I liked Brendan's idea better.

Throw him into a river for a week.

 

[tombrown]

That is very surprising. We can put a man on the moon but we can't tell with any surety how old a Ugandan footballer is.

You got taken in by that NASA hoax?

 

[Glen C]

Renato Sanches doesn't even LOOK 18. I remember having this conversation with someone ages ago and we were saying that if he was african no one would believe his age.

 

[FoxForceFive]

I thought that relatively recently they used a bone marrow test to determine someone's age correctly. I may be wrong though, & also, getting consent to extract bone marrow, considering the intense pain, is unlikely.

 

[doctor_mac]

Surely there's some kind of medical procedure that can measure bones or something to determine his real age, if required?

Or am I thinking about trees?

Yes you cut through the leg bone and count the rings.

 

[refugee]

Once he hits 30 you can check his age. Just put him on a sofa and ask him to get up again. Anyone over 30 makes a groaning noise as they get up.

 

[doctor_mac]

There must be a fairly accurate wank-rate to age formula.

Ahhh, there is so.

 

[Kay Age El]

He could very well be only 18-years-old.

The problem with these accusations are that they are just as hard to prove as they are difficult to dismiss. The source Guy Roux is an extremely controversial persona that I honestly believe should keep his gob shut on such matters unless he can actually somehow prove his wild claims.

This too me very much looks like a 18-year-old kid. Yeah I could not grow a beard as an 18-year-old but that doesn't mean he's a liar.

 

[Glen C]

He could very well be only 18-years-old.

The problem with these accusations are that they are just as hard to prove as they are difficult to dismiss. The source Guy Roux is an extremely controversial persona that I honestly believe should keep his gob shut on such matters unless he can actually somehow prove his wild claims.

This too me very much looks like a 18-year-old kid. Yeah I could not grow a beard as an 18-year-old but that doesn't mean he's a liar.

Black people in general look a lot younger than their age and africans in general don't grow facial hair like that at 18...in general of course as there are exceptions obviously.

 

[Aidan O' Neill]

There must be a fairly accurate wank-rate to age formula.

Ahhh, there is so.

All that proves is a lot of men like to tell lies.

 

[manwithnoname]

Black people in general look a lot younger than their age and africans in general don't grow facial hair like that at 18...in general of course as there are exceptions obviously.

What?

 

[doctor_mac]

All that proves is a lot of men like to tell lies.

Yeah, the fact that 18-24 year olds say they're wanking less than 25-29 year olds suggests lots of 18-24 year olds are lying.

Massive respect to the 1.7% of 70+ chaps who admitted to cracking off over 4 times a week.

 

[dantes]

There must be some way. I've watched lots of telly, they're always estimating how old corpses are after being in a river for a week.

Must be easier when they're actually alive. We need a medical expert.

You really can't use their physiology as people physically age at different rates, depending upon how susceptible their DNA is to replication errors. The electrical activity of their brain could work. You can electrocute them, and see how much shit goes off in his brain. Repeat the procedure a week later. So you have an estimate for how much information he is adding over one week. Extrapolate back to see how many weeks his brain has been functioning. Oh I'm starting to see some flaws with applying this approach to footballers. Or human beings in general.

 

[manwithnoname]

6CM solutions offered so far on the "science of estimating human age":

Weekly electro-shock therapy linked to neurological activity

Chop a leg off and look at the rings

Extract some bone marrow

Throw them in a river

 

[FoxForceFive]

6CM solutions offered so far on the "science of estimating human age":

Weekly electro-shock therapy linked to neurological activity

Chop a leg off and look at the rings

Extract some bone marrow

Throw them in a river

You missed off count how many times they wank.

Although probably best to do that one before you do the others...

 

[Athens]

You missed off count how many times they wank.

Although probably best to do that one before you do the others...

An 18 year old rich footballer should be getting laid loads though, so they might not wank as much as the average in betweener.

Although there's the chance they love themselves and they enjoy watching themselves in front of the mirror.