Be INCHA sends official letter to Premier League clubs: Do not allow the sale of Newcastle to Saudi Prince

Be Qatar-based IN Sport has written all the Premierligla clubs, and the chief executive league chief, and urged them to block the 300 million-pound sale of Newcastle United to the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund.

The sale of Newcastle by Mike Ashley to the PIF-led consortium has awakened great interest in recent weeks and has seemed to be finalised in the near future, yet there may now be an impasse in the works.

be ININ, the biggest foreign broadcasting partner in the league, has warned against including Saudi Arabia in TV piracy due to their disagreements against the pirated channel, BeyQ, which illegally broadcasts the matches.

A letter sent to Premierliga clubs, according to the Times, by the company who paid 500 million pounds for three years for clubs, says: “Rresisic to allow for the purchase of controlling or material interest (if acquired directly or indirectly) in a leading Premierliga club from what is actually the government of Saudi Arabia, cannot be ignored given the country's past actions and continued illegal actions and its direct impact on the trade interests of Premierliga, its club members, its partners, and the general broadcasting of the country (4)1x>.

“As a long partner and major investor in Premierliga, we call on you to take carefully all the implications of this purchase”.

According to the league last July, they had talked with nine legal firms in Saudi Arabia about a complaint about copyright against BeutQ.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are involved in a political dispute that has continued for the past three years.