An investigation into 'tapping up' in youth football could be the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) select committee's next investigation following Liverpool's Premier League sanction for trying to poach a 12-year-old star from Stoke City.
Liverpool have been banned from signing players to their academy for at least a year and fined £100,000 after Stoke complained about the Merseyside club's approach to the player and his family.
According to the Daily Telegraph, this is alleged to have included an offer to pay his school fees, something Stoke had been doing until the Premier League introduced a rule last year that prevented clubs from doing this unless they paid the fees of all their academy players.