Sounds uncannily similar to the original Jenas transfer involving ProActive, Nott Forest and ourselves.
Jenas was under contract with a player agent who was in turn employed by an agency located in Nottingham - an agency that spots & signs up young local talent. At the 11th hour, when we were sniffing around, a week or so before the eventual transfer took place ProActive/Stretford potentially dodged a legal bullet by poaching JJ's agent and in doing so muscled their way in & cashed in resulting transfer deal. I never followed up on the article i read - it was a couple of years ago - but the aggrieved party did lodge an official complaint with the relevant authorities.
Aye, I remember that. It turned out the son of Paul Hart (then Forest manager) was working for Proactive!