Amanda Staveley ‘desires to BUY’ a stake in a Premier League membership valued at £2.4bn and is being backed by ‘critical cash from a recent funding crew’ – only one month after leaving Newcastle

Former Newcastle co-owner Amanda Staveley is reportedly eyeing up a possible funding in one other Premier League membership.

Staveley admitted that she was ‘devastated’ however ‘did not need to get in Newcastle’s approach’ after she and husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi bought their six per cent stake within the Magpies to the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund (PIF) and the Reuben household in July after three years on the helm.

The pair had initially helped dealer the landmark £305million Saudi-backed takeover of Newcastle again in 2021, which ended Mike Ashley’s unpopular 14-year reign on the membership.

In response to sources from The Solar, the British enterprise government, 51, now desires to purchase a stake in Tottenham and is being backed by ‘critical cash from a funding crew of people, which incorporates some from the Center East’.

Staveley has now reportedly arrange a ‘recent’ consortium of buyers and ‘hopes to take an preliminary stake in Spurs’.

Forbes state that Spurs are at present valued at round £2.42billion ($3.2bn). Ought to Staveley want to buy a 25 per cent stake within the membership it could value roughly £605m. The 51-year-old has reportedly already raised £500m by way of her funding fund PCP Capital Companions.

The outlet provides that the buyers will subsequently look to extend their stake within the north London outfit.

Tottenham had been bought by ENIC Group (English Nationwide Funding Firm), in 2001, with Joe Lewis’s household belief changing into the membership’s new majority homeowners.

In 2023, Lewis was eliminated as ‘an individual with vital management of the membership’ following a ‘reorganisation of the Lewis Household Belief’. It got here after Lewis had been charged with 19 counts of insider buying and selling, claims which he pleaded responsible to in a US Courtroom earlier this 12 months.

Lewis had beforehand entrusted Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy with the each day operations of the membership, who holds a 29.88 per cent stake in ENIC, together with different members of his household.

In April, Levy confirmed that Spurs had been on the lookout for new buyers, with Mail Sport having beforehand revealed that the chairman was open to promoting a stake within the membership.

Levy, who took residence a £3million bonus in the course of the 2022-23 season, had insisted he would ‘do what is correct for the membership’ when on the lookout for potential buyers.

The 61-year-old informed Bloomberg in 2023: ‘I’ve obtained no actual curiosity to depart Tottenham, however I’ve an obligation to think about something that anybody might need to suggest. It isn’t about me, it is about what’s proper for the membership.’

Mail Sport understands that Qatar Sports activities Investments, who personal Paris Saint-Germain had been concerned about shopping for a stake within the membership. American buyers had additionally been circling.

Staveley, in the meantime, additionally helped arrange the £210m sale of Manchester Metropolis in 2008 to Sheikh Mansour and oversaw a interval and likewise performed a key function within the £7.3bn funding in Barclays financial institution by the Qatari Sovereign Wealth Fund and households from Abu Dhabi that very same 12 months.

In an interview with The Athletic final month, Staveley hinted that she and her husband had been concerned about future initiatives in soccer.

‘Mehrdad and I are eager to be hands-on,’ she stated. ‘We’re hard-working individuals, I like to be very busy and to have interaction and I like soccer. 

‘Very sadly, we’ve to maneuver on to different initiatives and that may contain us taking a stake in one other membership or shopping for one other membership and that’s troublesome. Nevertheless it’s attainable.’