Amanda Staveley has expressed her huge disappointment after the Saudi-backed consortium she was involved in pulled out of a deal to buy Newcastle United.
The consortium, led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, agreed a £300m deal to purchase the club from current owner Mike Ashley in April.
But after the deal was scrutinised by the Premier League it was announced on Thursday that their offer had been withdrawn. Speaking to The Athletic, Staveley could not hide her sadness at the fact the move had broken down. "I’m absolutely devastated,” she said. "I’m so upset, I don’t know how to express it.
I’m heartbroken. I can barely speak. I believe we weren’t just the right partners for Newcastle, we were the only partners. "We had a plan
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