• Liverpool manager wants Richard Masters statement
  • Klopp raises human rights and ‘kind of creating a super team’

Jürgen Klopp has called on the Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Masters, to explain why the controversial takeover of Newcastle was allowed given Saudi Arabia’s record on human rights.
Premier League clubs called for an emergency meeting to discuss the takeover by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, and the speed with which it was agreed. Amnesty International, which has described Saudi Arabia’s human rights record as “atrocious”, has called for the owners’ and directors’ rules to be made “human rights-compliant” after Tracey Crouch’s review of football governance.
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