Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor has said that the "soul" of English football is deteriorating.
Taylor believes that the game has become too focused on money, stating that the majority of players in England do not realise how "lucky" they are.
"The players don't know how lucky they are nowadays," Taylor told The Telegraph. "When you see the turnover in managers and owners wanting success yesterday, wanting ready-made players, with no time and no patience to develop youngsters, I'm quite fearful for the future.
"Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder. Football has got its biggest job to keep the soul of the game.
"To have the highest aggregate attendances in the world for a small island is phenomenal but we don't have a divine right to be that major spectator sport."
Taylor was recently embroiled in a row involving Newcastle United and striker Papiss Cisse, who has since reached an agreement with the club to wear a shirt emblazoning the logo of sponsors pay-day loan company Wonga.
