The chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association, Gordon Taylor, has added his voice to the furore surrounding Chelsea's transfer ban by calling for the movement of under-18 footballers between clubs to be outlawed.
Fifa announced on Thursday that Chelsea could not sign any players during the next two transfer windows as a consequence of the manner in which they signed 18-year-old winger Gaël Kakuta from French club Lens.
In the days since, debate has grown over the manner and scale in which clubs cherry-pick young players from clubs, with England sides receiving particular criticism.
Taylor believes the only solution is for there to now be a total halt on the signing of under-age players.
"There's been a general feeling that a ban on movement of players under 18 would be better for the game," he told BBC Five Live. "Football is about competition. You can't have all the best youngsters at the biggest, richest clubs."
As well as being chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Taylor is president of its international equivalent FIFPro, which backs a ban on players leaving their first club for another before they turn 18.
"You need to encourage clubs, if they're going to have youth development programmes, to be able to pick out the lads and have some time with them," he added. "If they do move on, which may be inevitable, you need a system whereby proper, effective compensation is paid.
"I don't think this situation with Chelsea would have reached the stage it has now if compensation had been agreed between the two clubs. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some more cases. This will give encouragement to other clubs to make appeals."
Manchester United are one club who could face an investigation after it emerged that Le Havre are going to ask Fifa to look into Paul Pogba's move to Old Trafford last month.
Fifa has yet to receive any complaint over the transfer of the 16-year-old midfielder and United have described Le Havre's accusations that they stole the French youngster as "complete nonsense".
"It [tapping up] happens throughout the world, it's just that the Premier League has the most money and are able to attract the very best players in the world," Taylor said. "Every Premier League club has an extensive network abroad now in the search for talent and its becoming more pressurised and as a result people will cut corners."
As it stands, European law prevents players from signing formal contracts tying them to clubs before their 16th birthday meaning that the club is in danger of losing him to another team when he turns 16.
This is further complicated by the fact that different nations are governed by different rules and sporting jurisdiction is sometimes at odds with employment law.
Chelsea have insisted they will "mount the strongest appeal possible" to Fifa's punishment and say the sanctions against them are "totally disproportionate to the alleged offence".
