The assistant manager of a Premier League football club was filmed offering advice on giving bribes to officials at other clubs during a conversation about signing players, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Eric Black, who works at Southampton FC, suggested that “a couple of grand” might persuade a colleague at another club to pass on information about players to a company that wanted to represent footballers.

Naming the assistant manager of a Championship side, he said “it doesn’t take too much to get these people involved” because “they won’t have an awful lot of money”.

Football Association rules explicitly ban such payments, and state that club officials such as Mr Black should immediately report any potential breach to the FA.