Lord Stevens will spend a further two months investigating corruption

Names of eight clubs were published in a newspaper at the weekend as Stevens continues to look into 39 transfers.

A joint statement said: "The Quest team handling the inquiry have not released or divulged the names of any clubs."

Stevens also stressed suggestions he wanted three more months, rather than the two he has been given, are wrong.

"An agreed period of two months was requested at the Premier League meeting last Monday in order for my team and I to complete the next phase of the inquiry," said Stevens in a statement.

"This was approved by the clubs, I understand unanimously."

Meanwhile the Premier League also plans to contact the newspapers warning them over possible legal action following the weekend's stories.

"The Premier League will be writing on behalf of these eight clubs to the newspapers concerned, putting them on notice that in the event these are not the eight clubs involved in this phase of the inquiry, they reserve their position with regard to taking the appropriate action against them."

If any club is deemed to have made illegal payments then Stevens has said he will pass details to the Premier League, the Football Association and, if necessary, the police.

Stevens has declared 323 transfers as being clean, but is now seeking to use Football Association rules to force agents to open their bank accounts as investigations continue into the remaining 39 transfers, most of which are domestic transfers.

The FA confirmed that it has the right to request information from FA-licensed agents' bank accounts under their "powers of inquiry" - and those who failed to comply risked a misconduct charge.