Everton and Liverpool are reportedly part of a collective group of clubs who are targeting the Premier League with complaints about the Newcastle United takeover.
Newcastle officially became under new ownership yesterday after a £300m Saudi-led takeover was agreed and signed off by the Premier League.
The sale meant that the deeply unpopular former owner Mike Ashley would leave the club after 14 years in charge.
The news broke earlier in the week that Saudi Arabia is set to lift its ban on beIN SPORTS - which in turn had huge ramifications for the takeover.
The issue has been part of a dispute between Newcastle and the Premier League over a £300m takeover which collapsed in the summer of 2020.
But according to a report by the Guardian , the other 19 clubs in the Premier League are pushing for an emergency meeting next week as they are united in opposition to a Saudi-led consortium being allowed to buy out Ashley.
The clubs are also reportedly demanding to know what changed for it to be waved through and why they received so little notice.
The report claims that demand for the emergency meeting is not so much an attempt to derail the takeover – because it is too late – but a chance for clubs to voice their concerns.
It is also claimed in the report that clubs learned via the media on Wednesday of the impending takeover and received confirmation from the league by email at 5.18pm on Thursday.
Speaking on the takeover, Alison McGovern, the shadow sports minister, and MP for Wirral South, claimed it was a failure in the way that football is governed.
She said: “This is ultimately a failure in the way that football is governed. Labour has called for a tough independent regulator for many years and the action we hope will come from the publication of the Crouch review cannot come soon enough.”
