FOOTBALL LEAGUE teams will be required to name at least one 'club developed' in their matchday squads next season.

STUART WEBBER has been confirmed as the new Sporting Director of Norwich City.

LIVERPOOL have been banned from signing academy players from other clubs for at least a year after being found to have tapped up a 12-year-old Stoke City player and offered both him and his family inducements.

STUART WEBBER is expected to be officially named as Norwich’s new sporting director following tonight’s game at Huddersfield.

WE’VE long known about the star player. Then there was the star manager. Now we have a new phenomenon - the star sporting director - and none comes bigger than Sevilla’s Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo - or Monchi. Now the 48-year-old says he has offers to come to the Premier League this summer.

MANCHESTER UNITED have signed up to make their debut at the Youdan Trophy – the youth tournament set up by former ref Keith Hackett, who promises it will become “the most prestigious of its kind in Europe”.

EVERTON director of football Steve Walsh has given an insight into the scouting overhaul he believes will deliver a top-four place for the Toffees.

THE way top clubs scout players has been revolutionised thanks to companies like Scout7. We took a look at how the online system works.

PREMIER LEAGUE clubs are talent trawling for children as young as four in a ‘race to the bottom’, according to the talent identification manager at the Football Association.

MANCHESTER UNITED’S global network of scouts have been summoned to Carrington for their first meeting following a massive overhaul.