The Football Supporters Federation (FSF) has called for more money to be invested in grassroots football following a transfer window which saw Premier League clubs break spending records by paying over £1 billion.
Top-flight teams in England now earn £8.4bn from the sale of global broadcasting rights, but the FSF believe it could be better spent than ending up "in the pockets of players and agents."
Kevin Miles, the chief executive of the FSF, told the Daily Telegraph: "Many fans will look with certain discomfort about some of the sums being talked about following the transfer window and drawing conclusions about how some of that money could be better invested and spread across the game as a whole.
"We would certainly favour significantly higher percentages of that money being reinvested in grassroots football, the development of the game, the interests of match-going fans, and rather less in the pockets of players and agents."
Damian Collins, the acting chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said top sides "could easily afford to spend more money on the development of the grassroots game," and suggested grassroots football has seen "less than 10 percent" of the £1bn transfer window outlay.
"The first six months of this year, investment in grassroots football was worth about £30m, which would only buy you a fraction of Paul Pogba," Collins said. "It does beg the question: is enough of that huge pool of revenue that the Premier League is generating going into the grassroots game and supporting the development of young players?
"Football could easily afford to spend more money on the development of the grassroots game and improving the quality of coaching."
The Premier League challenged criticism of their structure by highlighting the work already being done to support grassroots football in the U.K.
A spokesman said: "No league, no football association, no national governing body, no collection of clubs gets anywhere remotely close to the investment and support that the Premier League is giving to the development of football in this country or the investment in communities, which is a consequence of our sporting success."