The Premier League is about to have a new owner.
After billionaire Mike Ashley put Newcastle United Club up for sale, famous British businesswoman Amanda Staveley is negotiating to buy it back for a revealed price of about 300 million pounds.
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| Amanda Staveley is likely to be the new owner of Newcastle United. |
In the Premier League, there are many women participating in the management and holding shares of many clubs. One of the most famous is Ms. Marina Granovskaia, the right-hand woman of billionaire Roman Abramovich, participating in the management and deciding all important issues from transfers to business of Chelsea Club.
However, now Ms Granovskaia will have a “fierce” rival competing for the role of the most powerful woman in English football, even in the world of football. That is businesswoman Amanda Staveley, 44 years old, who is running the giant financial company PCP Capital Partners with a total value of more than 28 billion pounds.
Newcastle FC is about to change owners and be sold to businesswoman Amanda Staveley. |
Ms. Amanda Staveley is also a key figure in the famous acquisitions of English football such as helping billionaire Sheikh Mansour buy Man. City Club in 2009, as well as negotiating on behalf of Dubai International Capital to buy Liverpool Club in 2008 for 400 million pounds.
With her leadership talent and "huge" financial capacity, Ms. Amanda Staveley (whose personal assets are estimated at more than 1.2 billion pounds) has now decided to make a big investment for herself, which is to own the famous club in the Northeast of England, Newcastle.
Over the past week, Amanda Staveley and her associates have been involved in negotiations to buy Newcastle for a reported £300 million. Amanda Staveley also met with Newcastle's board of directors on October 1 after watching Newcastle draw 1-1 with Liverpool at St James' Park.
However, according to Sky Sports, there is news that Mr. Mike Ashley really wants to sell Newcastle Club to Ms. Amanda Staveley so that another English person can own the club, but wants the value to be 400 million pounds. British newspapers predict that this negotiation may increase the selling price of Newcastle a little, but this club will definitely have a British businessman who owns it and that will be Ms. Amanda Staveley, to become the "owner" of a club in the Premier League.
According to TNO