Manchester City discussed a plan to pay the family of Jadon Sancho £225,000 before they recruited the England star when he was a 14-year-old at Watford’s academy, according to leaked documents.

An internal City document that is part of the Football Leaks cache outlines a potential payment to Sancho’s family as “family support” should the club recruit him.

The document from the autumn of 2014 appears to be a draft agreement and it is not known if the payment was made. Sancho did join City from Watford in March the following year, and there have been previous allegations from the German magazine Der Spiegel that the club paid Sancho’s agent, Emeka Obasi, £200,000 connected to the move but tried to conceal the payment as an