Daily Mirror

COURT THREAT TO THE BIG

- EXCLUSIVE BY DARREN DARRENLEW LEWIS

PREMIER LE LEAGUE clubs coul could take the Big Six to court over P Project Big PictuA Picture. A special me meeting of s shareholde­rs i in the top f flight is e expected to b be a fiery affa affair this week.

They wi will consider plans con condemned as a power grab by the group led by Liverpool and Manchester United.

Chief among the concerns is the fear that the Premier League’s foreign owners want to prevent any threat to their domination – in return for bailing out the cashstrapp­ed EFL.

One club source told Mirror Sport: “Over time they will just vote for more and more for themselves.

“It’s rich, foreign owners trying to create a monopoly. They can even veto new owners, so if a rich new owner – like a Sheikh Mansour – comes along and threatens their position they can veto it.

“Liverpool and Man United want to create a monopoly and draw huge sums out of the clubs.

“It will mean the Big Six getting all the money, making all the decisions, becoming impregnabl­e.”

And it has left the clubs threatened by the proposals to consider their legal position. The source said: “Maybe it might get

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