Leeds United chairman Ken Bates is hoping for more action to stop clubs poaching youngsters.

Bates, who has seen a number of his most promising players lured to Premier League teams, backed the growing calls for leading clubs to lose points for what he called 'baby-farming'.

Bates, whose club was this week awarded compensation from Everton of up to £1.55million for England youth international Luke Garbutt, said: "Big clubs don't care about money. Everton get £40m in the Premier League, they have just banked £24m for Lescott, so that's £64m alone and we get £600,000.

"The only way to stop this baby-farming and scouring of lower clubs is points deductions. For really serious offences clubs should be banned from Europe."