(Reuters) - Manchester City have been banned from signing academy players for an initial 12 months and fined 300,000 pounds for breaching rules governing youth transfers, the Premier League said on Friday. While it is in force they will be unable to sign any academy players who have been registered with other Premier League or English Football League clubs. The ban is same as that handed down to Premier League rivals Liverpool last month for a similar offence. "The breaches concern approaches to two separate Academy players," the league said in a statement. There was "evidence of contact between the club and members of each academy player's family while those academy players were still registered with their previous clubs."

Source: The Star May 05, 2017 17:26 UTC