Gary Neville has called on Newcastle United's owners to answer the 'difficult' questions that Eddie Howe has faced on Saudi Arabia's appalling human rights record.
Yasir Al-Rumayyan penned an open letter on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the buyout - providing more regular communication in a single statement than supporters were used to in the Ashley era - but the Newcastle chairman has not yet spoken to reporters in the UK or addressed legitimate human rights concerns since the buyout.
Given how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the chairman of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), which owns an 80% stake in the club, those questions are not going to go away. In the year since the takeover, after all, 81 people were executed in a single day in Saudi Arabia last March while a Saudi court recently jailed Salma al-Shehab, a women's rights activist studying at Leeds University, for 34 years because of her tweets.
