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The Premier League has been urged to review a legally binding promise made by the owners of English soccer club Newcastle in 2021 that Saudi Arabia's ...

PIF is chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, and six of the other eight board members listed on its website are government ministers. The club has moved from the Premier League's relegation zone 17 months ago to contending for a place in the Champions League this season. In some games, the team has worn a white and green jersey like the Saudi national team.

Newcastle's takeover by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) was approved after "legally binding assurances" the Saudi government would not have any ...

The takeover was only approved in October 2021 after the Premier League received "legally binding assurances" that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would not have any control over the club. "They are a sovereign instrumentality of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and a sitting minister of the Saudi government, and they cannot be compelled to provide testimony and documents in a US proceeding unless their conduct - not LIV's or anyone else's - is truly the 'gravamen' of the case." "The Premier League will surely need to re-examine the assurances made about the non-involvement of the Saudi authorities in the Newcastle deal, not least as there's still a [Newcastle United: Premier League 'comfortable and satisfied' Saudi state will not interfere](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59436977) [Why is Saudi Arabia's involvement in sport controversial?](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/60877612) [A year on from Newcastle United takeover, what has the impact been?](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63155217) However, in a US court case Newcastle chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan has been described as "a sitting minister of the government" with "sovereign immunity". The Premier League "needs to re-examine the assurances" it was given about potential Saudi state control of Newcastle United, says human rights group Amnesty International.

Premier League clubs have reacted with anger to the description in a US court document of the Newcastle chairman as 'a sitting minister of the Saudi ...

I think that any buyer who is now looking to buy any club is going to be looking at the multi-club model.” But whenever you look at multi-club you have to make sure that you have the right fit – you also make sure that you choose your territory carefully and have the right chemistry. On Thursday the Newcastle director Amanda Staveley said the club’s owners were considering buying controlling and minority stakes in other clubs to “grow Newcastle and our brand”. “The opportunity to buy players early in the cycle is critical to our growth. The development has prompted calls from Amnesty for the league to re-examine the assurances given by Newcastle’s owners that the Saudi state would not have control of the club. Now the human rights group Amnesty International is calling on the league to ask new questions of Newcastle’s owners.

Fresh questions have been raised about the separation between the Saudi state and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) after a brief filed in a court case ...

The PIF has also declined to comment. Al Rumayyan is the only exception, Now human rights group Amnesty International is calling on the league to ask new questions of Newcastle's owners.

The ongoing legal dispute between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf organisation may now have big ramifications for Premier League club Newcastle ...

[Norman](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/greg-norman) himself is well acquainted with Al Rumayyan, having served as CEO of the breakaway circuit since October 2021. Al Rumayyan was at Wembley last Sunday as the club played in the Carabao Cup final, their first domestic cup final for 24 years, but saw his side lose 2-0 to [Manchester United](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/manchester-united-fc). [Champions League](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/champions-league). But back in November 2021, [their takeover deal was approved by authorities](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastle-premierleague-saudiarabia-takeover-statement-25163458), who stated the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would not have any control over the North-East outfit. "The PIF and His Excellency Yasir Othman Al Rumayyan are not ordinary third parties subject to basic discovery relevance standards. The 53-year-old also serves as chairman of state-owned petroleum company Saudi Aramco.

The Premier League has been urged to re-examine assurances given by Newcastles Saudi owners following the filing of a new court document in the United ...

The PIF has also declined to comment. Al Rumayyan is the only exception, but now the court document describes him as a minister too. Now human rights group Amnesty International is calling on the league to ask new questions of Newcastle's owners.

Help decide who wins February's award out of Iheanacho, Leno, Rashford, Emerson Royal, Solomon and Watkins.

[Manor Solomon (FUL)](https://www.premierleague.com/players/62934/Manor-Solomon/stats) [Bernd Leno (FUL)](https://www.premierleague.com/players/4985/Bernd-Leno/stats) He is keeping January signing [Pedro Porro](https://www.premierleague.com/players/32229/Pedro-Porro/stats) out of the team. [Fulham](https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/34/Fulham/overview) team who ended February in sixth place. [Manchester United](https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/12/Manchester-United/overview) star's superb form continued with a PL-high five goals in the month, scoring in every appearance he made. [Ollie Watkins (AVL)](https://www.premierleague.com/players/8658/Ollie-Watkins/stats) The Israeli made a huge impact in February, scoring in three successive substitute appearances. An incredible feat considering he only played 86 minutes in the month. [Emerson Royal (TOT)](https://www.premierleague.com/players/63654/Emerson-Royal/stats) [Marcus Rashford (MUN)](https://www.premierleague.com/players/13565/Marcus-Rashford/stats) The Nigerian’s five goal involvements came in a devastating two-match spell. [Kelechi Iheanacho (LEI)](https://www.premierleague.com/players/13554/Kelechi-Iheanacho/stats)

The other nominees are Jeffrey Schlupp (Crystal Palace v Manchester United); Brennan Johnson (Nottingham Forest v Leeds United); Willian (Fulham v Nottingham ...

[HERE](https://www.premierleague.com/news/3087417). The other nominees are Jeffrey Schlupp (Crystal Palace v Manchester United); Brennan Johnson (Nottingham Forest v Leeds United); Willian (Fulham v Nottingham Forest); Nampalys Mendy (Leicester v Tottenham); Seamus Coleman (Everton v Leeds); Manor Solomon (Fulham v Wolves); Oliver Skipp (Tottenham v Chelsea). [De Bruyne](https://www.mancity.com/players/kevin-de-bruyne)’s capacity to shine in the biggest of moments.

Kepa Arrizabalaga has once again been nominated for the Premier League Save of the Month award, the third time this season.

It looked to be heading for the bottom right-hand corner, if not for Kepa’s strong wrist. You have until midday on Monday 6 March to cast your vote for the Premier League’s February Save of the Month, with the winner being announced at 2pm on Friday 10 March. The Spaniard receives his nomination in February for his important stop to deny Fulham’s Andreas Pereira’s strike in the first half of our 0-0 draw with our London neighbours at the beginning of the month.

Skipp was nominated for an award that Spurs might actually win! Skippy's first ever Premier League goal was a beauty, a second ball blast that was tipped onto ...

Thankfully there isn’t much chance of that because he’s up against United manager Erik Ten Hag and Fulham’s Marco Silva, both of whom went undefeated in February. Now, Conte is a pretty magnanimous guy and I’m sure if he won the award he’d immediately give it to Stellini. There are a bunch of goals to choose from and Spurs wingback Emerson Royal was nominated for [February’s EA Sports Premier League Player of the Month](https://www.premierleague.com/news/3087415) award, and Antonio Conte (lol) was nominated for [Manager of the Month](https://www.premierleague.com/news/3087416). We’ll get to Conte, but first — whom amongst us would’ve thought that Emerson Royal would have gone from a player getting ironic cheers when being subbed off to one with the potential to receive a player of the month award? Meanwhile, Oliver Skipp’s first Premier League goal against Chelsea was nominated for Goal of the Month.

Richard Masters said visas contributed to the league's record spend and the system was designed to increase England-qualified players.

What the Premier League needs is more Brightons and Brentfords who are getting up there, providing variety and staying up.” I am not here to defend them but you have to judge these things over a period of time.” Chelsea’s outlay of more than £300m on players in January doubled the previous record and took their spending to more than £600m under their American owners. Within our rules it’s a test over a 12-month period, so the question is whether they are going to sell some of their existing players in the next window. It’s partially to do with the GBE system.” “While we’re totally committed to developing young, homegrown players and we want Gareth Southgate to be successful, when you have a limited supply of players you can go for and you’ve got lots of demand, then it’s slightly inflationary.

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters believes Chelsea's spending should not be judged for three or four years. The new club hierarchy has embarked ...

I don’t know the answer to that question. You need to judge the football club after three or four years. The players have longer contracts, lower wages.

An American court document filed by lawyers for Saudi-backed LIV Golf in a case against the PGA Tour revealed this week claimed the Public Investment Fund ...

PIF is chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, and six of the other eight board members listed on its website are government ministers. The club has moved from the Premier League’s relegation zone 17 months ago to contending for a place in the Champions League this season. In some games, the team has worn a white and green jersey like the Saudi national team.

After a busy January transfer window, many have questioned Chelsea's spending, but not Premier League CEO Richard Masters.

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - The Premier League should re-examine assurances received from Newcastle United's Saudi owners that the Middle East state ...

PIF is chaired by Saudi Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman. The brief filed in the PGA Tour case against LIV Golf described the Public Investment Fund as "a sovereign instrumentality of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." However, a U.S.

The Blues blitzed their way through the January window, spending around £323million on new players including almost £90m on forward Mykhailo Mudryk.

It doesn't mean to say that the regulation isn't working." "The question is whether they're going to sell some of their players in the next window? The new owners of the club of less than a year have had two transfer windows.

Richard Masters said there are questions over whether the West London club can sell players in the summer window after spending more than half a billion ...

Chelsea have won only two of their past 15 games and sit closer to the relegation places than fourth place in the table. Today (Thursday) marks the one-year anniversary of Chelsea being put up for sale by Roman Abramovich. Head coach Graham Potter remains unable to find a strongest XI and is struggling to give all of his big-name players sufficient playing time. “I’m not here to defend,” Masters said. [Ukraine](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/ukraine) winger [Mykhaylo Mudryk](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/mykhaylo-mudryk) for £88m, in addition to several other long-term acquisitions. [Chelsea](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/chelsea-fc) can sell some of their players in the summer transfer window following an unprecedented spend in the previous two windows.

A double gameweek for both Liverpool and Arsenal wasn't enough to topple Haaland as the most captained player in Gameweek 25, although we suspect the majority ...

We have to be mindful that captaincy provides the most variance in the FPL game. So if we are to go against captaining Haaland in the next four gameweeks, who should be the key contenders? He scored against them back in Gameweek 4. Among the single-gameweek options, Kane’s name is in the frame when Tottenham host Nottingham Forest. Manchester City will be favourites to prosper at the Etihad, though, with two-thirds of Haaland’s goals coming on home turf. There are good reasons to not captain Haaland in the next four gameweeks.

Amnesty International have asked the Premier League to reexamine assurances made by Newcastle United's ownership that the Saudi Arabian state will not be in ...

The Premier League approved the takeover in October 2021 only after receiving “legally-binding assurances” that PIF was a separate entity from the state. In that, PIF describes itself as “a sovereign instrumentality of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” and Al Rumayyan as “a sitting minister of the Saudi government”. [Premier League](https://theathletic.com/football/premier-league/) to re-examine assurances made by [Newcastle United](https://theathletic.com/football/team/newcastle-united/)’s ownership that the Saudi Arabian state will not be in control of the club.

The Premier League approved the PIF-led takeover of Newcastle in October 2021 after receiving “legally binding assurances” that the Saudi state would not have ...

The PIF has also declined to comment. Al Rumayyan is the only exception, but now the court document describes him as a minister too. Now human rights group Amnesty International is calling on the league to ask new questions of Newcastle’s owners.

Foreign soccer players in the Premier League often hire the services of English teachers to make their adaptation to a new country easier.

Luque has caused quite the storm among the partners of Premier League players. Foreign soccer players in the Premier League often hire the services of English teachers to make their adaptation to a new country easier. Duque was born in Portugal and after working for several years as a lawyer in sport, she is now a dedicated "linguistic trainer", and works intimately with footballers and coaches.

English football's financial structure needs a “proper reset” to make clubs outside the Premier League sustainable, says EFL chief Rick Parry.

It’s about the sustainability of clubs throughout the pyramid.” “That’s not healthy for the Premier League. “The Championship [second tier] is a financial basket case.

In this piece, we have provided a breakdown of the costs their owners have incurred for their Premier League clubs over the past ten years.

The owners have spent million on and off the pitch to make Manchester City, one of the most dominant forces in European football. Boehly has shown a preference for holding onto some of the most famous sports properties in the world. government for his strong ties to Vladimir Putin, has been replaced by a group led by Todd Boehly, the founder and CEO of Eldridge Industries. The London-based team signed a number of well-known players at this time, including Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang (€63.75m), Nicolas Pepe (€80.00m), etc. Toffees have a strong financial foundation but have not used the funds smartly. Leicester City’s owners wrote off £194 million that they had lent the football team over the previous ten years. They are unable to match many other teams’ transfer expenditures or pay structures, but they have nonetheless developed very effective models, as seen by their standings in the standings and player sales records. Owner Fosun demonstrated his continued support for the team by effectively forgiving £126 million in loans. 80% of the club is owned by the consortium. In addition, each club has a number of wealthy owners who provide financial support throughout the transfer period to help the team get stronger. (The figures mentioned in this article are based on research by The unpopular Glazer family, who are receiving more and more criticism from both fans and commentators.

The Premier League was urged Thursday to review a legally binding promise made by the owners of English soccer club Newcastle in 2021 that Saudi Arabia's ...

The club has moved from the Premier League's relegation zone 17 months ago to contending for a place in the Champions League this season. In some games, the team has worn a white and green jersey like the Saudi national team. "The Premier League will surely need to re-examine the assurances made about the non-involvement of the Saudi authorities in the Newcastle deal," Amnesty economic affairs director Peter Frankental said in a statement.

Richard Masters seeks visa rules shake-up to make it easier for English clubs to sign young overseas players.

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The new visa system put in place after Brexit is a factor in Premier League clubs spending record sums on transfers, said CEO Richard Masters.

"Some of this has nothing to do with the GBE system. "Within our rules it's a test over a 12-month period, so the question is whether they are going to sell some of their existing players in the next window." [Enzo Fernandez](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/285450/Enzo-Fernández) -- was more than the combined totals of all clubs in the [Bundesliga](/soccer/league/_/name/GER.1), [LaLiga](/soccer/league/_/name/ESP.1), [Serie A](/soccer/league/_/name/ITA.1) and [Ligue 1](/soccer/league/_/name/FRA.1)1. "They might have bought, but they would probably argue they have a different transfer policy to the previous regime with younger players, longer contracts and lower wages. "Ultimately we have generated an earned advantage over our European investors and a lot of that earned advantage goes to those European investors in transfer fees for players that we can no longer buy at a younger age," Masters added. English clubs cannot sign Europe-based players under the age of 18, however, and Masters said at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit in London that the immigration system "needs a bit of a tweak."

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has attempted to explain why clubs in England's top-flight are spending so much after Brexit.

‘Whilst we’re totally committed to developing young, homegrown players and we want [England manager] Gareth Southgate to be successful… [Chelsea owner Todd Boehly ‘very interested’ in taking over French club](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/24/chelsea-owner-todd-boehly-very-interested-in-taking-over-strasbourg-18346147/?ico=more_text_links) [Brighton chief mocks big-spending Chelsea and sends transfer message over Moises Caicedo](https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/02/brighton-ceo-mocks-big-spending-chelsea-and-sends-transfer-message-18375426/?ico=more_text_links) [Chelsea](https://metro.co.uk/tag/chelsea/?ico=auto_link_sport_P3_LNK1) alone [have spent over £600m since the summer](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/01/what-chelseas-best-xi-now-looks-like-after-enzo-fernandez-signing-18202001/) as [Todd Boehly](https://metro.co.uk/tag/todd-boehly/?ico=auto_link_sport_P3_LNK2) replaced Roman Abramovich as owner. [Privacy Policy](https://metro.co.uk/privacypolicy/) [Brexit](https://metro.co.uk/tag/brexit/?ico=auto_link_sport_P1_LNK1).