Barnsley Football Club's previous colleague lead trainer has been sentenced for tolerating a £5,000 reward to release business data about players.
Tommy Wright was given an envelope of money during a paper's covert test into football defilement in 2016.
The 53-year-old was indicted for two charges of taking hush-money at Southwark Crown Court.
Football operators Giuseppe Pagliara and Dax Price were sentenced for two checks of offering and encouraging an incentive.
Examiner Brian O'Neill QC said the three men had been up to speed in an examination by the Daily Telegraph, which "distributed various reports of supposed defilement in English football" in September 2016.
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Attendants purposeful for just shy of 32 hours before returning lion's share decisions on Wright, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and 48-year-old Price, of Sittingbourne, Kent.
Pagliara, 64, of Bury, Greater Manchester, was seen as liable on 12 December.
The court heard Wright was given the cash by the paper's covert journalist Claire Newell.
He is likewise comprehended to have spilled data about Barnsley players at a gathering in August 2016.
Hearers were let some know of the players were urged to join with Pagliara and Price, who both disrupted football guidelines by going about as "outsider" proprietors of players in an offer to benefit when they were sold on to different clubs.
Lewis Power QC, shielding Wright, said his inspiration for engaging with the two specialists was to transform Barnsley into a superior club.
The court was told such outsider possession set-ups were restricted by the FA in 2009 and by Fifa in 2015.
Every one of the three men were bailed to show up at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday when a date for condemning will be fixed.
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