Manchester City are facing a one-year transfer ban from Fifa over the signing of eight players aged under 18 from overseas, according to the latest batch in the Football Leaks series.

The club becomes the second Premier League club - after Chelsea - to face detailed allegations of paying the families of youth players.

Fifa investigators are calling for City to be banned from making any signings for two transfer windows, according to Danish newspaper Politiken.

Relatives of Mathias Bossaerts, the Belgium defender, were said to have been paid £190,00 by City. Documents in the hands of the European Investigative Collaborations show the club were willing to pay £10,000 relocation costs to the family of a young boy who was still playing under-8s football.

Chelsea are also facing a two-year transfer ban over the illegal signing of 14 foreign youth players, and are alleged to have paid the father of Danish defender Andreas Christensen £656,000 over four years. Sten Christensen signed to work as a scout for Chelsea on the same day his son signed for the club in 2012.

Politiken claim there is no evidence that Christensen did any scouting for the club, and has also published an internal Manchester City document outlining that club’s efforts to sign the defender.