Liverpool have been banned from signing English Academy players for two years and fined £100,000 after being found guilty of tapping up a Stoke City schoolboy.
The Premier League held an investigation into a claim that 12-year-old was offered a forbidden inducement to move from The Potters last summer, with the serious allegation made that Liverpool reneged on an agreement to pay his school fees when they did not sign him.
But the sanction that has been imposed on Liverpool stems from the club accepting that they spoke to the player and his family before they were permitted to; this included them paying for him and some of his family to watch a game at Anfield.
Liverpool have were keen to sign the schoolboy, who was 11 at the time and would have gone into their Under-12 team, and offered to pay his school fees, which Stoke were already doing.
However the Premier League prevented the signing because of their interpretation of rule 299.1, which specifically relates to the payment of the school fees of the player, who is now 13.
It is here where Liverpool left themselves open to be investigated and sanctioned.
The Premier League have been deliberating for over a week over what punishment to hand out and they have decided that a fine and ban, which has started with immediate effect, is the most appropriate measure to take.
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