Updated According to the Daily Mail, Leeds, Leicester and Burnley have written a joint letter to Everton’s future owners 777 Partners to tell them they will sue the club for £300m if they are found guilty of breaking Premier League spending rules but this claim has been flatly rejected.
Matt Hughes claims to have learned that the three clubs had penned a joint letter to 777 “asking them if they are aware of their plans to sue Everton pending the outcome of a Premier League independent commission on 25 October”.
This was on the basis that the three clubs feel that the League’s failure to address the charges against Everton last season have helped Everton escape relegation by avoiding a points deduction in the interim.
Nottingham Forest and Southampton are understood to have withdrawn from this anti-Everton bloc, as the former stayed in the Premier League whilst the latter finished 11 points behind fourth-bottom Everton so would not have survived even if the Goodison Park club had been docked points.
Hughes says he understands that the Premier League have acknowledged the existence of the letter to 777 Partners but both BBC Sport and the Liverpool Echo insist that, as of this afternoon, no such letter had been received by the Florida-based investment firm.