Premier League

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.

Chelsea's approach to transfer spending will need to be judged over a period of time, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has said.

“The question is whether they’re going to sell some of their players in the next window? It doesn’t mean to say that the regulation isn’t working.” The new owners of the club of less than a year have had two transfer windows. The players have longer contracts, lower wages. It doesn’t always work that way. “They would argue probably, I would suggest, that they have a different transfer policy to the previous regime.

A document filed in the LIV Golf case describes Newcastle's chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan as “a sitting minister of the Saudi government”.

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. “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.” A brief filed in a court case involving the PGA Tour and LIV Golf describes the PIF as “a sovereign instrumentality of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” and Al Rumayyan as “a sitting minister of the Saudi government”. The Premier League has been urged to re-examine assurances given by Newcastle’s Saudi owners that the Middle East state would not have control of the club following the filing of a new court document in the United States.

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.

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.irishmirror.ie/all-about/greg-norman) himself is well acquainted with Al Rumayyan, having served as CEO of the breakaway circuit since October 2021. [Champions League](https://www.irishmirror.ie/all-about/champions-league). 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.irishmirror.ie/all-about/manchester-united-fc). 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.

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. “They might have bought, I would argue, probably to a different transfer policy to the previous regime - younger players on longer contracts on lower wages - and obviously within our rules it’s a test over a 12-month period, so the question is whether they’re going to sell some of their players in the next window. [Chelsea](https://www.irishmirror.ie/all-about/chelsea-fc) can sell some of their players in the summer transfer window following an unprecedented spend in the previous two windows.