Aston Villa chief executive Christian Purslow says he thinks the Premier League is investigating Newcastle's Saudi-led takeover.
The league gave the green light to the takeover which gave the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) majority control of Newcastle after receiving 'legally-binding assurances' that the Saudi state would not have control of the club.
However, court documents published in the United States in February described the PIF as 'a sovereign instrumentality of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia' and PIF governor and Newcastle chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan as 'a sitting minister of the Saudi government'.
The documents appeared to raise fresh questions over the link between the PIF and the Saudi state.