Amanda Staveley 'talks' revealed amid Tottenham takeover links and Daniel Levy stance
Amanda Staveley has reputedly spoken to investors from Qatar about acquiring stakes in another Premier League club after leaving Newcastle United amid links with Tottenham Hotspur.
Staveley, 51, and her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi sold their shares in Newcastle during the summer and stepped down as a director almost three years after the club's Saudi Arabia-backed takeover. The financier fronted the consortium that saw the Saudi sovereign wealth fund - the Public Investment Fund (PIF) - become their majority owner.
However, since departing Newcastle, the business executive has spoken openly about hoping to become involved in football again. After remaining close to PIF, an offer is reportedly on the table.
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City AM reports that Staveley is being offered an informal advisory position on the 2034 World Cup. She reputedly has already been consulting for the Saudi Arabia Football Federation.
In addition to remaining close to PIF, it appears she still has close links to Qatar. The report acknowledged that she had been talking to investors from the country about buying into another Premier League club.
Staveley reportedly advised the Qatari property investment company Barwa when they purchased the Park House site on Oxford Street from Land Securities two years later. According to the Mirror, some seven miles northeast of the West End, she was reportedly in talks over acquiring a stake in Spurs last year.
Then last month at Bloomberg's Women, Money & Power event in central London, Staveley said, "We're looking at a number of investment operations. We can't say too much at the moment because of, you know, rules around it. But we will be able to talk about it, hopefully in the not-too-distant future."
At a fans' forum last year, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said, "Some form of minority investment is what we're looking for. We've got nothing to announce at the moment, but we are in the market."