The fallout from the Liverpool tapping-up ban intensified on Thursday night after the chairman of Stoke City revealed he was pursuing compensation over the matter.

Peter Coates confirmed he was seeking reparations from the Premier League over the loss of one of his club’s best schoolboys after Liverpool became the first side to be sanctioned for making an illegal approach to an academy player since the introduction of a new system for policing such moves last year.

The Anfield side were banned from signing schoolboy players for at least a year – with a second year suspended – and fined £100,000.

As exclusively revealed by Telegraph Sport earlier this week, Liverpool were also facing legal action from the parents of the boy, who were left in thousands of pounds of debt after the club reneged on a promise to pay his school fees.

Those were being covered by Stoke prior to them striking a deal with Liverpool that would see them receive £49,000 in compensation for the four-year investment they put into the youngster’s footballing and academic education.

But a Premier League rule-change on the payment of school fees caused the move to collapse and left the boy unable to join another academy until Stoke are paid.