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Everton's suspended head of academy recruitment joins sports agency

The head of academy recruitment suspended by Everton amid tapping up claims has joined a sports agency.

Martin Waldron was told to stay away from the club in September, after the Premier League launched an investigation into allegations that Everton had tapped up a Cardiff City schoolboy.

The Merseyside club were eventually fined £500,000 and banned for two years from signing players of an Academy age.

Martin Waldron was formerly the head of recruitment at Everton's academy

Waldron was the subject of an anonymous letter sent to the Premier League which claimed he approached the boy and his family when he was 11 or 12 offering the youngster a place at a school associated with the club along with rent-free accommodation and £600 family allowance per month.