In 2014, the Committee heard from the SPFL about a rule change that should prevent such a situation arising by increasing transparency about interest that a club may have in a young player:
The rules have been changed from this summer, which means that any club wishing to acquire an amateur young player must register that interest with us—the league—and we pass that interest on to the player and his parents, so that they are in full possession of all the facts about any clubs that are interested in signing the young player and they have a choice about what to do. If that process is followed...