Manchester City have been allowed to re-sign a schoolboy they were punished for tapping-up at the age of 11 following a Premier League climbdown, The Telegraph can reveal.

Pep Guardiola’s side were ordered to release the boy at the end of last season and banned from registering him again as an academy player after breaking tough new rules to crack down on poaching in the game.

But the boy’s parents fought the ruling and were in the process of taking their case to a tribunal last month before the Premier League agreed to relax City’s sanction.

Now 13, the youngster has since resumed training with the club with a view to re-registering with their academy at the end of the season.

A midfielder who joined City from Everton two summers ago, the boy was one of two the club were found to have tapped up following a Premier League investigation.

The other was a 15-year-old from Wolverhampton Wanderers who they were allowed to keep until he completed his GCSEs in order not to disrupt his education.