Former Newcastle United co-owner Amanda Staveley spotted at West Ham stadium amid takeover talk
Former Newcastle United co-owner Amanda Staveley is plotting a return to football with West Ham United among the clubs under consideration.
Former Newcastle United co-owner Amanda Staveley was spotted at West Ham United over the weekend as she plots a potential takeover.
Staveley and her husband, Mehrdad Ghodoussi, are heading up a new global sports and media fund as they eye a return to football, two years on from their St James’ Park exit.
Staveley’s PCP Partners helped broker the £305million PIF-led takeover of Newcastle in October 2021, initially taking a 10% stake in the football club before being put in charge of its day-to-day running.
Staveley and Ghodoussi played a key role in accelerating the Magpies’ progress on and off the pitch post-takeover before stepping down in July 2024 after their remaining shares were acquired by PIF and RB Sports & Media at a 85%/ 15% split.
Amanda Staveley spotted at West Ham stadium
Now they are aiming to replicate what they did at Newcastle with another English club, having been linked with investing in Tottenham Hotspur and, more recently, West Ham.
“We’ve looked at a lot of clubs, including Tottenham, but we are looking at clubs around the Premier League and the UK, Europe,” Staveley said earlier this month.
“We really want to be buying, going in and investing into a club again very soon.”
Amid the West Ham talk, Staveley was spotted at the club’s London Stadium over the weekend, but it wasn’t for business reasons - or at least we don’t think it was.
Indeed, Staveley was there to see boyband Take That. Uploading a video to Instagram, the Ripon-born financier wrote: “My first Take That concert at London Stadium 🎶”
Amanda Staveley responds to West Ham takeover talk
Staveley has already been asked directly about the potential takeover of West Ham and said: “Maybe. You don’t know. I think both my husband and I were attracted to building a business where we can take a brand that isn’t doing so well, a club that isn’t performing well, get it on the right road, and bring that forward.
“There are very few clubs (where that can) work. If you want to tick every box, there’s actually very few clubs that allow that.”