The Premier League want clarification on former chairman Karl Oyston’s role at Blackpool.
The 43-year-old stepped down from the post on August 18, claiming he had grown disillusioned with the role of players’ agents in the top-flight of English football.
However, it later emerged Oyston had been declared bankrupt on the very same day he quit the position, becoming acting chief executive at Bloomfield Road.
Under Premier League rules for both owners and directors, a bankrupted person is banned from being chairman or a director of a top-flight club.
And a league spokesman told the BBC: “We are going to be in touch with the club. We want to clarify the bankruptcy and his position at Blackpool.”
According to the Individual Insolvency Register, Oyston will be automatically discharged bankruptcy on August 18, 2011.