Football clubs are employing private investigators to spy on players they want to sign, according to former Scotland boss Craig Levein.
Levein, 56, said PIs were paid to find out everything about prospective signings in a bid to ensure they were the right kinds of characters before signing them.
He said the practice didn’t occur when he starred for Hearts and Scotland in the 80s and 90s but claimed it is now “quite common”.
In recent years several top clubs have broken the £100million barrier in transfer fees to secure top stars, with some of the richest players earning hundreds of thousands of pounds per week.Levein, who has managed Dundee United, Leicester City and Hearts during his career, told BBC Radio Scotland podcast Sacked In The
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